BIBLE IN ENGLISH. NEW TESTAMENT (TYNDALE’S VERSION) | [The newe Testament of oure sauiour Iesus Christe. Faythfully translated oute of the Greke. With the notes and expositions of the darke places therein. London: by (S. Mierdman for) Rycharde Iugge, 1553]

BIBLE IN ENGLISH. NEW TESTAMENT (TYNDALE’S VERSION)

[The newe Testament of oure sauiour Iesus Christe. Faythfully translated oute of the Greke. With the notes and expositions of the darke places therein. London: by (S. Mierdman for) Rycharde Iugge, 1553]

4to (7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.; 199 x 149 mm). Black letter, with some roman and italic, 2 woodcut text map, woodcut text illustrations, ornamental wood- and metal-cut initials, woodcut printer's device at end of Acts (z6v), section-title to the epistles within a four-piece woodcut border Aa1r); lacking 8 of 332 leaves: ¶1–4, R1, Rr2,3 (supplied from another edition), Rr4 (including title, dedication, and final leaf with printer's device); first 4 leaves dampstained and guarded, Aa1 guarded and remargined and possibly supplied from another copy, most headlines and many shoulder-notes shaved or cropped. Nineteenth-century purple pebbled morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; spine faded, front inner joint broken, extremities rubbed.

The second quarto edition of Jugge's revision.

REFERENCES

STC 2869; ESTC S102488; Herbert 104

PROVENANCE

King's College, London (library and "withdrawn" stamps on front flyleaf)