Bible in English. [Tyndale's Version, ed. Edmund Becke]

Folio (11 1/4 x 8 in.; 286 x 203 mm). Divisional titles for Old Testament Parts 2–3 the Apocrypha, and the New Testament within woodcut borders, with separate registers and foliation; imperfect and defective, general title supplied in facsimile, lacking all leaves before fol. 9 of Genesis (B1), B1–2 and last leaf of NT defective, margins soft and frayed, corners chewed, browned and stained throughout. Bound with: An imperfect and defective copy of Sternhold and Hopkins's Metrical Psalmes. London: Richard Day, 1585. Sixteenth-century limp vellum; very worn, spine sprung from text block. Brown cloth folding case. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

Howell Family (birth and death records, ca. 1650–1711 on front endpaper)

STC 2088; ESTC S107008; Herbert 93

Folio (11 1/4 x 8 in.; 286 x 203 mm). Divisional titles for Old Testament Parts 2–3 the Apocrypha, and the New Testament within woodcut borders, with separate registers and foliation; imperfect and defective, general title supplied in facsimile, lacking all leaves before fol. 9 of Genesis (B1), B1–2 and last leaf of NT defective, margins soft and frayed, corners chewed, browned and stained throughout. Bound with: An imperfect and defective copy of Sternhold and Hopkins's Metrical Psalmes. London: Richard Day, 1585. Sixteenth-century limp vellum; very worn, spine sprung from text block. Brown cloth folding case. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
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The Old Testament and the Apocrypha are the "Matthew" Bible version (i.e., the translation of William Tyndale edited by John Rogers), revised by Richard Taverner, further revised by Edmund Becke, who edited the whole. These were previously published in separate octavo parts by Day and Seres. The New Testament closely agrees with Day and Seres's Tyndale Testaments of 1548 and 1551; and is practically identical with that printed by Day alone, probably in 1551.