BIBLE, New Testament. The newe Testament of our Saviour Jesus Christe. Faythfully translated oute of the Greke. With the Notes and expositions of the darke places therein. [London: Richard Jugge, 1553].

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BIBLE, New Testament. The newe Testament of our Saviour Jesus Christe. Faythfully translated oute of the Greke. With the Notes and expositions of the darke places therein. [London: Richard Jugge, 1553].

4° in 8's (195 x 152mm). Title in red and black with woodcut portrait of Edward VI, preliminaries partly printed in red, many woodcut illustrations in the text and initials, woodcut printer's device on last page [McKerrow 125a]. (Some pages soiled or slightly stained; upper and lower margins trimmed affecting headlines and signatures; inner margins of calendar leaves strengthened; foot of final leaf torn with loss of text, supplied in manuscript.) 19th-century russia gilt, spine in compartments ( upper cover detached), g.e. Provenance: autograph note by Francis Fry, 1879, authenticating the volume tipped inside upper cover; John, 4th Marquess of Bute bookplate.

Second quarto edition of Jugge's revision of Tyndale's version of the New Testament. Herbert 104; STC 2869

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