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By 1769 the Grenville
copy was bound, as now, in red morocco, in two volumes, measuring
365mm by 288mm. The arms of Grenville were later superimposed. The
last book of the Bible in volume I is Psalms, the first in volume
II is Proverbs.
Thomas Grenville's coat of arms on the cover of volume 1. Larger image.
According to Paul Schwenke, 'Die Gutenbergbibel', in: Johannes Gutenbergs zweiundvierzigzeilige Bibel: Ergänzungsband zur Faksimile-Ausgabe (Leipzig, 1923), no. 30 at p. 15 this copy was previously bound in three volumes, volume I: Pentateuch - Ezra IV; volume II: Tobit - Ezekiel; volume III: Daniel - Apocalypse.
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