Tyndale William Translator (7 results)

Condition: Very Good. 8 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 22 cms. Category: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket edges are worn. Two one centimeter tears from top and bottom edges of jacket spine along front cover hinge. Spine is lightly bumped, but binding is secure. Inside pages are clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 434 pages. 8.00x0.94x10.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 653 pages. 8.50x5.75x2.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Second edition of the Matthew Bible. "A milestone in the history of English Bibles. Much of the text of the King James Version is derived from Tyndale's translation. A nice copy of the complete New Testament with Tyndale's preface and the five-page table after the book of Revelation. This is the edition with the infamous note on 1 Peter 3: "And if she be not obedient and healpfull unto hym, endevoureth to beate the feare of God into her heade, that therby she maye be compelled to learne her duitie and do it." weight: 2.1 lb." Title page re-margined, outer margin tightly trimmed, scattered soiling, dampstains, wormholes, and old repairs, very light scuffing to cover. Starr Bookworks (binder) Small woodcuts in the gospels and Revelation, historiated initials. 29.5x19.5x2.2 cm. 122 unnumbered leaves. A-T6 V8. Folio. Modern full brown leather, raised bands, gilt decorations, embossed border. Binding by Starr Bookworks.…

Lexington, KY: Anvil Press. 1955. Four vols, small 8vo. Original light blue paper-covered boards, paper labels to spines; unpaginated, each volume with double-page woodcut from the Holkham Bible as a frontispiece, printed in red and black in American Uncial type; very slight sunning to spines, uncut, near fine.Limited edition, one of 300 copies.This set of Gospels, using Tyndale's translation, was designed by Victor Hammer, the Austrian-born typographer and artist, and was printed by his son Jacob. Hammer, responsible for the creation of several famous Uncial fonts such as that used here, settled in the US after fleeing the Nazis in 1938 having trained young craftsmen such as Fritz Kredel and Rudolph Koch. He continued to teach in Kentucky and set up the Anvil Press with his second wife Carolyn Reading, herself a printer. The Press was a co-operative that used a number of different presses and sold its productions at cost.The Four Gospels is considered to be its finest work and representative of Hammer's high standards: "The books designed or printed by Hammer, regardless of the imprint under which they were published, had a unity rare indeed in private printing: Absolutely uncompromising in design and execution, they represented admirably the superb instrument a private press can be in the hands of an individual intent on perfection, or in the hands of his followers" (Roderick Cave, The Private Press, 1971, p. 263). …