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 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 299 At the top of the folio Book, which Knox holds with his right-hand fingers, there arc in the Picture, though omitted in the engraving, certain letters, two or three of them distinct, the others broken, scratchy and altogether illegible. Out of these, various at- tempts were made by several of us to decipher some precise inscription ; but in all the languages we had, nothing could be done in that way, till at length, what might have happened earlier, the natural idea suggested itself that in all likelihood the folio volume was the Geneva Bible ; and that the half obliterated letters were probably the heading of the page. Exa- mination at the British Museum was at once made ; of which, from a faithful inspector, this is the report : ' type along the edges, which is more copious and con-
 * There are three folio editions, printed in Roman
 * type of the Geneva Bible, 1560, '62, 70. The
 * volume represented in the Picture, which also is in
 * Roman, not in Black Letter, fairly resembles in a
 * rough way the folio of 1562. Each page has two
 * columns for the text, and a narrow stripe of com-
 * mentary, or what is now caUed margin, in very small
 * tinuous than in the original, but otherwise sufS-