Lot 20

Bible. New Testament. Diglot, Tyndale's version.

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Description

The new Testament: in Englishe after the greeke translation annexed wyth the translation of Erasmus in Latin. London: Thomas Gaultier for I[ohn] C[awood], 1550

8vo (188 x 118mm.), text in double columns, the English in black letter, the Latin in roman type, title and calendar in black and red, the title within a woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 60b), nineteenth-century purple levant morocco by Fazakerley, foot of title page renewed, slight spotting to some pages

Provenance

E. Gordon Duff, ownership inscription; Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth, sale in these rooms, 8 July 1946, lot 2403, £44, Maggs Bros, London; George Goyder, bookplate on front pastedown, sale in these rooms, 23 June 1958, lot 10, £125, F. Hammond, sold to Lord Wardington, 1 July 1958, £150

Literature

Herbert 88; STC 2821

Catalogue Note

a fine, large copy, the fourth printing of Tyndale's version of the New Testament. The typography makes it clear that it is the English which takes precedence, the Latin being but an adjunct. Erasmus's Paraphrases in N.T. had appeared in their English version by Nicholas Udall in 1548 (see lot 2307).

The translation of Erasmus's An exhortation to the diligent studye of Scripture is taken from his Paraclesis. It first appeared in English in an edition printed in Antwerp in 1529 (STC 10493), then in two editions of about 1534 and in another edition of [1548]. The identity of the translator is not known.

This work is the first item printed by the Frenchman Gaultier in London, and the second item published by Cawood, who in Mary's reign became Queen's Printer and produced a number of Catholic service books.

This copy contains cancel slips pasted on C6 verso and C7 recto, and the “Table to fynde the Epistles and Gospels”, missing in many copies, is bound at the end of the preliminaries.