Description: THE ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT WILLIAM TYNDALE Together with the Text of Erasmus FROM THE CASTLE LIBRARYOF THE EARLS OF MACCLESFIELD London, 1550 * * * * THE NEW TESTAMENT IN ENGLISHE AFTER THE GREEKE TRANSLATION WYTH THE TRAUSLATION [SIC] OF ERASMUS IN LATIN. WHEREUNTO IS ADDED A KALENDAR, AND AN EXHORTATION TO THE READING OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES MADE BY THE SAME ERASMUS WYTH THE EPYSTLES... IN LATIN AND ENGLYSHE. WHEREU[N]TO IS ADDED A TABLE [IN TYNDALE'S VERSION]. LONDON: THOMAS GAULTIER FOR J[OHN] C[AWOOD], 30 NOVEMBER 1550 Octavo. (178 x 107mm.), ff. [14], [248], [2], Black Letter and Roman letter, title and calendar printed in red and black, title within a woodcut border [McKerrow & Ferguson 60], *2r with "J.C. vnto the Christen reders", Binding: nineteenth-century dark morocco by Hatton of Manchester, gilt fillet on covers, Macclesfield arms gilt on upper cover, spine gilt and lettered. Complete. Important printing of Tyndale's New Testament. The typography makes it clear that it is the English which takes precedence, the Latin being but an adjunct. The translation of Erasmus's An exhortation to the diligent studye of Scripture is taken from his Paraclesis. This work is the first item printed by the Frenchman Gaultier in London, and the second item published by Cawood, who in Mary's reign became Queen's Printer. Provenance: (1) Signed by the original owner, William Hawkins; with various notes and signatures. On *2 verso are some English verses in a mid sixteenth-century hand: "As vertue spreds throughoute this booke/ So hellish vice it doth exclude/ and makes the wight that earnest looke/ to see howe sin doth them delude." (2) From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, Removed From Shiburn Castle. Collation Notes: L1 supplied, a few wormholes affecting text, slight damage to C7, M8 repaired, last 2 leaves repaired in margin. An extraordinary copy of a rare book with unusual provenance. Please feel free to contact us with any additional questions.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: London
Special Attributes: Inscribed
Region: Europe
Author: William Tyndale
Publisher: T. Gaultier
Topic: Christianity, Bibles
Subject: Religion & Spirituality
Year Printed: 1550
Original/Facsimile: Original
