Religion, The Bible – A Tyndale Bible: Rogers (John, as Thom...

Religion, The Bible – A Tyndale Bible: Rogers (John, as Thomas Matthew, d. 1555) after William Tyndale (c. 1494-1536) The Bible, That is to Say all The Holy Scripture: In which are Contayned the Olde and New Testamente, truly and purely Translated into English, and Nowe lately with Greate Industry and Diligence Recognised with the Prologues of William Tyndale, London, John Daye and William Seres 1549 (lacks OT titles and opening pages of Tyndale’s Prologues) [xxviii] + unpaginated black letter text in two columns, woodblock initial letters, but Genesis 1-26 neatly pasted in from a later, smaller format edition, good New Testament title in woodcut vignette, dated MCXLIX [1549] all present up to the end of I Peter (thus lacking II Peter, I-III John, Jude & Revelation), armorial bookplate William Reynolds Lloyd, old rebinding in half calf over brown boards, gilt titles ‘Tyndale’s Bible’ to spine to (loosening) backstrip , MS letter bound in from Thomas Logie of Clifton ‘to his cousin’ dated 1872; MS innscr. To fly, Morrell/ Christ Church Oxford/1828, followed by old booksellers’ notes in pencil. (1) ***William Tyndale's influential translation of the Bible into English cost him his life; he was burned at the stake in Antwerp in 1536 on the orders of Emperor Charles V and with the approval of Henry VIII. Tyndale based his text on the Greek rather than the St. Jerome’s Vulgate, to ensure greater fidelity to the original meaning. His New Testament was first printed in 1526 in Worms, as it could not be printed or even owned in England (book burnings were organised at Smithfield by the bishop of London, Cuthbert Tunstall) but the number of reprints show that there was certainly sufficient demand for copies. Tyndale revised his text for an edition printed in Antwerp in 1534, in which his preface ‘to the Christian reader’ appeared for the first time. Tyndale's influence on the English language can be considered of the first importance but was less obvious than that of Martin Luther in Germany; although his language was used in later English Bibles it was entirely without acknowledgement. Early editions of Tyndale’s Bibles often saw heavy use and are frequently incomplete, as here. The most substantial lacunae in the current example are the preliminaries, including the initial part of Tyndale's preface, and the New Testament after the end of I Peter. ***Provenance: William Reynolds Lloyd (1808-1872) was a member of the famous Quaker banking dynasty of Birmingham, where he lived as an active businessman. In 1860 he married Tabitha Fox from Nottingham (1811-1894), well known in her day as the author of novels as Bitha Lloyd. It is possible that the book had come to Lloyd as an heirloom from within the family.

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