Bible, English.- [The newe Testament of oure Savyour Jesu Christ], translated by Myles Coverdale, 202ff. only (of 384), comprising G2-7, H1-8, K2-7, S2-8, T1-8, U1-8, Y1-8, Z6-8, Aa-Bb⁸ a⁸ c-r⁸ s1-4, (ie part of gospels Mark and John, much of Acts, St. Paul, Peter and James and substantial part of Revelation), printed in black letter, numerous woodcut illustrations, some full-page including Saints Paul, Peter and James and all 21 in Revelation, woodcut initials, a few clean tears, trimmed with occasional loss of side-notes, catchwords or signatures, some soiling, occasional early ink annotations, various later notes and ownership inscriptions to endpapers, later calf, rebacked and recornered, book splaying open having been on display at the same pages for so long, [Herbert 48; STC 2842], 8vo (148 x 92), [Antwerp, M. Crom], [1539].

⁂ An exceedingly rare, early edition of Coverdale's translation of the New Testament. This edition differs from that which appeared a year earlier from Crom's press in Antwerp in the larger type (giving it 35 lines as opposed to 48 lines) and there are fewer, and some different, woodcuts. There is no complete copy known. ESTC S90908 locates copies at Cambridge University Library, BL, St. Paul's Cathedral, John Rylands, Bodleian and American Bible Soc., NY - all of which are imperfect. RBH records only 1 copy - that in Bernard Quaritch catalogue #369 in 1922 (£52.10s), also imperfect.