more nearly resemble those of the folio of 1535 than the type in any 80 BIBLE, MATTHEW, FIRST EDITION. Title printed in red and │ . . | . . │ . . | M,D,XXXVII, Beneath the lower edge of the woodcut: Set forth with the Kinges most gracyous lycece. On the reverse: These thynges ensuynge Foll. 2, 3 contain Kalendar and Almanack (1538- The text 555b contain The Table. Fol. 556a: The ende of the Folio, black letter, double columns, with woodcuts, with an having the first title and the colophon inlaid, nevertheless a む 8. d. 1537 200 00 EXCESSIVELY RARE. The book was printed abroad-most people think at Antwerp-under the revision of John Rogers, who was then residing either at Antwerp or at Wittenberg. (The name Thomas Matthew is merely pseudonymous.) The three chief woodcuts— namely, Adam and Eve, the allegorical title, and the one that precedes Isaiah, are from the same blocks as were used by Ludowich Dietz in printing the Low German Bible at Lübeck in 1533-34; and the large flourished letters above referred to appear to be from the same fount of type as the similar initials found in that Low German Bible. The blocks may have been borrowed from Dietz. The text is printed so correctly that it is difficult to consider this book as having been set up by foreign compositors whether at Antwerp or at Paris. On the back of the New Testament title, there is a Register taken from the book of Cockwold Church, of the births and christenings of the children of Sir Thomas and Dame Barbara Bellayse from 1602 to 1618; and on a blank page before the New Testament a list of the children of Henry and Grace Bellasyse from 1626 to 1646. 81 THE GREAT BIBLE, CROMWELL'S EDITION. Title: The Byble in | Englyshe, that is to saye the con- | tent second Maccabees ends. Fol. 426, title in black and red Folio, Black letter, printed in double columms, with wood- 1539 130 0 A superbly fine and unmixed copy of the first edition of the Great Bible. An ugly one, mended and made up by a considerable number of facsimiles, was sold at the Ashburnham sale for a relatively high price, £73. Cum 82 CROMWELL'S BIBLE. Title, within the same woodcut border as Small folio, having two leaves inlaid and some margins a little mended, nevertheless a very fine copy, perfect, sound, and genuine, in an elaborate calf binding decorated in Grolieresque style (probably by Clarke) 1540 74 0 This is the second edition of Cromwell's Bible, and was reprinted from the first edition of 1539 described above, about the same time when Cranmer was issuing his own modification as the second edition of the Great Bible. It is excessively rare in a perfect condition. There was no copy in the Caxton Exhibition. This 83 TESTAMENT, TYNDALE. Title: THE NEWE | TESTA- | MENT | in Englyshe [by Tyndale] and in | Latin of Erasmus | Transla- tion. NOVVM TESTAMENTVM anglice et latine. | Anno dni. 1549. intitulation printed within a woodcut border. On the reverse: The bokes contay- ned in the newe Te- | stamente. . . Fol. 292 (marked CC.lxxxxi): . . The ende of the newe | Testamente. | Here folowe the Epistles taken out of the olde Testamente, whiche are | red in the churche after the vse of Salysbury vpon certayne dayes of the yeare. Fol. 300b: . . Here endethe the Epystles of the olde testamente. Foll. 301-304 contain the Table of the Pystles and Gospels, at the end of which on 304b is the colophon: Thus endeth the newe Testa- | ment both in Englyshe z in Laten, of mayster Eras- | mus translacyō, with the Pystles take out of Olde testamēt. Set forth with | the Kynges moste gracyous lycence, and Imprynted by Wyllyam Powell | dwellynge in Fletestrete at the sygne of the George nexte to saynt Dun- stons Churche. The yere of our Lorde M.CCCCC. | xlix ... GOD SAVE THE KYNGE. £ s. d. Small 4to. the English and the Latin printed collaterally on each page, the former in Black letter, the latter in Roman; the title in facsimile and the margins of fol. 2 mended; old English black morocco gilt (bound about 1665-70) 1549 24 0 0 Dunn Gardner's (which had been Lea Wilson's) copy, having a facsimile title like this one, sold for £35. 84 BIBLE, COVERDALE, SECOND FOREIGN EDITION. Title: The whole | Byble that is the holy scripture of the Olde and of oure | Sauoure Iesu Christ M.D.L. the | xvj. daye in the Small 4to. the title inlaid and several leaves repaired with £ s. d. (Zürich and London), 1550 75 0 0 A perfect copy of this edition is one of the rarest things known to bibliographers. This copy was imperfect when the Duke of Sussex had it, but was made complete by Lord Ashburnham.-In the Zürich issue the preliminary matter consisted of a title (attributing the translation to Thomas Matthew) and of eighteen other leaves; but of those original preliminaries only a single copy exists, which is preserved in the Public Library at Zürich, and bears (on its title) the imprint of Christoph. Froschouer. Hester purchased the stock, and substituted his own eight preliminary leaves, including the title with the true name of the translator. 85 TESTAMENT, TYNDALE. Title: The newe Testament | of our Sauiour Iesu Christe. Faythfully tran- | slated out of the Greke, . . | . . Here a woodcut portrait of Edward VI, and under it a motto from Mathew xiii in Latin and in English. On the reverse: The copy of the byll.. Fol. 2a: Jugge's Epistle To the most puysaunt and mightye Prince. Foll. 3-8 contain the Calendar, 9-14 the Almanack and Table, 15 A perfecte supputation, and 16 An exhortation. with the life of St. Matthew on the reverse. The text, followed by the Epistles and the Table, occupies 322 leaves; on the reverse of the last being the printer's mark and the colophon: Imprynted at London by Rycharde Iugge, dwel- lynge in Paules churche yarde at the signe of the byble. | With the kynge his mooste gratious lycence, and priuilege, forbyddynge all other men to print | or cause to be printed, this, or any other | Testament in Englyshe. Small 4to. Black Letter, with numerous woodcuts, including the curious representation of the Devil as a man with a tail and a wooden leg; the title, the eighth leaf from the end, and the last leaf in facsimile, the corner of a leaf mended and made up; blue morocco, gilt edges R.Jugge, 1552 20 0 0 This edition, printed in London by Jugge, contains some of the same large flourished letters as have been remarked in Matthew's Bible of 1537, and in the Lubeck Low German Bible of 1533-4. 86 CRANMER'S BIBLE. Title: The Bible in Englishe according to the tran- | slation of the great | Byble | 1553. Fol. 4776: . . Imprinted at London by Richarde Grafton, printer to the Kinges highnes. An. M.D.LIII. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum. Small 4to. printed in an extremely minute Black Letter; QUEEN ELIZABETH'S COPY, bound for her in black morocco, with crown and shield in gold on the sides (with the bookplate of the Duke of Sussex), in a red morocco case 1553 110 00 A perfect copy of this Bible is a rarity of the first order. It must have been very rare even about the year 1600 (which seems to be the period of the binding), since the Queen could get no other to put into her library than this one, which had belonged to a theologian named Robert Buxton, and bore a number of MS. notes in his handwriting. The name "Robt. Buxton" on the title was written by him before 1559. This date is proved by a note on the title of the New Testament which begins thus: "Mr. Doctor Watson bysshop of Lyncolne holdyth the Worde was God and not God was the Worde, for then word factum est |