Bible in English. New Testament [Tyndale's Version]

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

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Description

The Newe Testament of the Last Translacion. By Wylliam Tyndall with the Prologes and Annotacions in the Merg[n]t, Declaryng Many Harde Places Conteyned in the Texte, also in the Later Ende Foloweth the Epistles of the Olde Testament. [London: William Tylle, 1549]
leather,ink,paper

4to (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.; 191 x 134 mm). Title within woodcut border, almanac, and calendar printed in red and black, text in black letter; 269 of 292 leaves: lacking 23 leaves: M1,8; N3–5 and 8; O2, 4, 6–8; P1–2 and 7–8; Ff1–2; Kk2,7; Mm2,7; and ²Ii2; washed and pressed with strong residual staining and discoloration, margins strengthened or extended throughout, particularly corners. Nineteenth-century divinity calf over beveled boards, tooled in black, marbled endpapers, red calf lettering piece, edges stained red; casing sprung from text block, minor rubbing to extremities, head of spine slightly chipped.

Provenance

John and Ann Wintersgill (inscription on X8r dated 1753)

Literature

STC 2855; ESTC S90918; Herbert 77

Catalogue Note

"The two leaves containing the table of Epistles and Gospels [not present in this copy as in most], do not properly belong to the book; their signature is Ii, and they were printed by T. Petet, not by W. Tylle. Apparently they were borrowed from some edition in which Ii was their correct signature ... and added just before publication, in order to give the Epistles and Gospels according to the Prayer Book of March 1549. The rest of the book is adapted to the Salisbury Use" (Herbert).