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BIBLE, N.T., Latin and English. The newe testament both Latine and Englyshe ech correspondent to the other after the vulgare texte, communely called S. Jeroms. faythfully translated by Myles Coverdale. Southwark: James Nicolson, 1538.
4o in 8s (198 x 144 mm). Title printed in red and black within woodcut border, woodcut initials; calendar printed in red and black. Double column, Roman and Gothic types. (Title and final leaf browned with a little marginal wear, some marginal soiling and pale dampstaining, marginal tear on D6 and Ji4 just crossing shoulder note, minor marginal browning.) 16th-century English calf over bevelled wooden boards, covers with borders of blind fillets surrounding a wave roll, central panel with floral ornaments at each corner (rebacked, repairs to corners and clasp areas, lacking clasps). Provenance: 16th-century annotations on title margins and verso and other margins -- Elizabeth Cheyne (signature dated 1700 on title verso) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from William H. Schab, 13 July 1943) -- donated to SMS 1943.
EXCESSIVELY RARE COMPLETE COPY OF THE FIRST QUARTO EDITION OF COVERDALE'S DIGLOT TESTAMENT IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. "Before leaving London in the spring of 1538 for Paris, where he had undertaken to prepare, under Thomas Cromwell's patronage, what was afterwards known as the Great Bible, Coverdale had settled that Nycolson should publish for him in London a New Testament with the Vulgate text and his own English version printed side by side. This he determined on in order to reassure his timid friends, and to confute his critics. The book appeared in 1538 in a handsome form, but so full of misprints and errors that Coverdale repudiated it, 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" (Herbert). The English text differs somewhat from that in the 1535 Coverdale edition, and agrees more closely with the Vulgate.
EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE: according to ABPC no complete copies have appeared at auction over the past fifty years. Darlow & Moule 19; Herbert 37; STC 2816.
4o in 8s (198 x 144 mm). Title printed in red and black within woodcut border, woodcut initials; calendar printed in red and black. Double column, Roman and Gothic types. (Title and final leaf browned with a little marginal wear, some marginal soiling and pale dampstaining, marginal tear on D6 and Ji4 just crossing shoulder note, minor marginal browning.) 16th-century English calf over bevelled wooden boards, covers with borders of blind fillets surrounding a wave roll, central panel with floral ornaments at each corner (rebacked, repairs to corners and clasp areas, lacking clasps). Provenance: 16th-century annotations on title margins and verso and other margins -- Elizabeth Cheyne (signature dated 1700 on title verso) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from William H. Schab, 13 July 1943) -- donated to SMS 1943.
EXCESSIVELY RARE COMPLETE COPY OF THE FIRST QUARTO EDITION OF COVERDALE'S DIGLOT TESTAMENT IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. "Before leaving London in the spring of 1538 for Paris, where he had undertaken to prepare, under Thomas Cromwell's patronage, what was afterwards known as the Great Bible, Coverdale had settled that Nycolson should publish for him in London a New Testament with the Vulgate text and his own English version printed side by side. This he determined on in order to reassure his timid friends, and to confute his critics. The book appeared in 1538 in a handsome form, but so full of misprints and errors that Coverdale repudiated it, 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" (Herbert). The English text differs somewhat from that in the 1535 Coverdale edition, and agrees more closely with the Vulgate.
EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE: according to ABPC no complete copies have appeared at auction over the past fifty years. Darlow & Moule 19; Herbert 37; STC 2816.