Bible in English [Taverner's Version O.T./Tyndale N.T.]

5 parts in one volume, folio (11 x 7 1/2 in.; 279 x 191 mm).  Black letter text, double columns, general title (facsimile) and almanac printed in red and black, general and divisional titles within architectural woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 76), woodcuts of each Evangelist at the beginning of his respective Gospel, woodcut initials; general title and Vvvv7 in facsimile, lacks terminal blank Vvvv8, occasional dampstaining and text browning, U2 corner torn away with some text loss, paper creased and so printed on QQ1 with subsequent internal tear, marginal tear on Tttt5 slightly affecting text, corner tear on NT title-page neatly repaired, light marginal foxing in latter half of text. Eighteenth-century mottled calf, red and black lettering pieces; upper joint cracked, repairs to spine.

Gibbs Family, the Barons Aldenham (armorial bookplate of Aldenham House, Herts.)

STC 2088; ESTC S107008; Herbert 93

The Old Testament and the Apocrypha are the "Matthew" Bible version (i.e., the translation of William Tyndale edited by John Rogers), revised by Richard Taverner, further revised by Edmund Becke, who edited the whole. The New Testament closely agrees with Day and Seres's Tyndale Testaments of 1548 and 1551 (Herbert).