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[BIBLE, in English]. The Newe Testament of our Sauiour Jesu Christe. Faythfully translated out of the Greke. 1552. FIRST EDITION OF TYNDALE'S VERSION.
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[BIBLE, in English]. The Newe Testament of our Sauiour Jesu Christe. Faythfully translated out of the Greke. London: Richard Jugge, 1552.

4to (203 x 152 mm). Black letter, some italic, woodcut text illustrations, ornamental wood- and metal-cut initials. (Lacking 10 leaves including title-page, first signature and final 2 leaves one of which is a blank, each supplied in facsimile, several leaves at end supplied from a shorter copy, a few leaves trimmed and some repaired in margins, occasional marginal soiling or toning with some dampstaining.) Modern morocco antique, contemporary speckled edges; matching morocco folding case. Provenance: Religious and ownership notations in a few margins inked in an early hand; Rev. William Douglas Parish, 1833-1904 (book label).

FIRST EDITION OF TYNDALE'S VERSION with Jugge's revisions and the first of Jugge's three illustrated quarto editions. "This handsomely printed revision by the publisher, Richard Jugge, is lavishly illustrated with nearly sixty new cuts in the Gospels and a large title-page portrait of the young king, who awarded the publisher a license to print the book... The narrative cuts in the Gospels are apparently the first made specifically for the text of an English Bible" (Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books 2867). ESTC S189; Formatting the Word of God 4.3; Herbert 99; STC 2867.


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