"Before leaving 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 ... 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."--Darlow & Moule.

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Title printed in red and black within woodcut, architectural border; woodcut initials.

Printed in 2 columns, with the Latin text on the inner column and the English text on the outer column.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 2816

Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, entry 19

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 19th-century black morocco double-panelled in gilt. The spine is ruled and stamped in gilt. This copy is wanting the first four leaves, which are replaced in facsimile. The label of B. Westermann & Co., booksellers, is present on the front pastedown, as is the bookplate of the BPL Townsend Fund, dated Sept. 3, 1878. The autograph of William G. Medlicott, of Longmeadow, Mass., dated 1864, is present on the second front flyleaf recto. A four-page bibliographical inscription regarding the various editions of this Bible is bound-in at front. Present on the rear flyleaf is an early, full-page inscription of The epistle of Paul to the Laodiceans. A separate early inscription is present on the verso. Marginalia, in various early hands, is present within the text.