Bible in English and Latin. New Testament [Coverdale Diglot]

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Description

The Newe Testament Both Latine and Englyshe Ech Correspondent to the Other After the Vulgate Texte, Communely Called S. Jeroms, Faythfully Translated by Myles Coverdale. Southwarke: James Nicolson, 1538
paper, ink, leather

4to (7 1/4 x 5 in.; 184 x 127 mm). Title (facsimile) printed in red and black within woodcut border, text in parallel columns with Latin in roman type and English in black letter, woodcut initials; top of [Malteses cross]2 remargined, title, Tt1–2 and Uu6–7 (table) supplied in facsimile, lacking final blank Uu8, some residual staining and browning. Modern brown morocco antique paneled in gilt and blind, spine lettered gilt, edges gilt.

Provenance

Charles Bonvill (signature on last page of dedication dated 1704 and on several other leaves) — Charles Butler (bookplate on front pastedown)

Literature

STC 2816; ESTC S102464; Herbert 37

Catalogue Note

First edition. Coverdale repudiated the edition on account of the rampant misprints and errors and "immediately arranged for an edition under his own superintendence at Paris. This appeared in November of the same year from the press of Francis Regnault. Nycolson, however, published, also towards the end of 1538, a revision of his first edition ... this, according to the title-page in some copies, was Faythfullye translated by Johan Hollybushe."