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Bible in English. New Testament [Tyndale's Version]
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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- The First New Testament Printed in the English Language (1525 or 1526) Translated from the Greek by William Tyndale Reproduced in Facsimile with an Introduction by Francis Fry. Bristol: Printed for the Editor, 1862
- ink,leather,paper
8vo (7 x 4 3/4 in.; 177 x 120 mm). Nineteenth-century half morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; extremities a little rubbed.
Literature
Herbert 1936
Catalogue Note
One of just 177 copies, according to Herbert. Fry has signed the introduction, and dated it "3 Mo 1862." Accompanied by a prospectus for Fry's 1865 Description of the Great Bible, 1539, and by an autograph letter signed by Fry to a Mr. Bady, inviting him to visit to examine Fry's collection of Bibles (3 pages, no place or date).