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Fry, Francis.
A Bibliographical Description of the Editions of The New Testament Tyndales Version in English with Numerous Readings Comparisons of Texts and Historical Notices The Notes in Full from the Edition of Nov. 1534 An Account of Two Octavo Editions of the New Testament of the Bishops' Version Without Numbers to the Verses Illustrated with Seventy-Three Plate Titles Colophons Pages Capitals.
Publisher: Henry Sotheran & Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1878
Stock Code: 14509
First Edition. Demy quarto, pp., [xxii], [1], 186, [2], photographic frontispiece portrait of Tyndale, plus 73 numbered plates, [2] blank, 190-196, 4, [2], collated and complete. Publisher’s deep green pebbled cloth over bevelled boards, titled and ornamented in gilt to spine and upper board within rules in red and black. Top edge gilt. Printed in red and black. Minor shelf wear to extremities. Minor foxing to prelims and a small number of pages. A very good copy. Francis Fry F.S.A. (1803-1886) was a collector and bibliographer whose facsimile of Tyndale’s New Testament (1525 or 1526) was the first complete edition of the book in English. Fry dedicated his bibliographical studies to the printing of early Protestant Bibles, collating copies from across Europe. This bibliographical study of William Tyndale’s version is drawn from over forty editions, and was the first bibliography to discover many of the variants between copies. Elegantly printed, with extensive lithographic facsimile plates of relevant bibliographical material, this is one of the great works of nineteenth-century English bibliography. Rare. £750.00