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MATTHEW BIBLE The Byble, that is to saye, all the holye Scripture. General and New Testament titles supplied in old photostat facsimile; Hagiographa title in later facsimile on laid paper. Printed in black letter. 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 295x190 mm, old calf over wooden boards with brass center- and cornerpieces, catch, and clasps, rebacked, surface wear on covers; contents toned with occasional soiling and minor marginal dampstaining, margins trimmed entering some headlines and sidenotes, some early underscoring and marginalia, several leaves torn in corners or at bottom with varying text loss; apart from the titles noted above, lacks 8 preliminaries, v3-4 (Job 42:6-17), ²2I8 (Song of the Three Holy Children 1:51-Susanna 1:48), and 3T3-6 (Revelation 16:5-end, followed by table and colophon). 19th-century hand-colored bookplate of Henry Aylorde, F.S.A.; signature of Thomas F. Ford, F.R.I.B.A., who was responsible for the rebacking and facsimile titles in 1936 according to a tipped-in note. London: Robert Toye, 6 May 1551
"Matthew" version; one of several variants of this edition distinguishable by the title and colophon, both of which are absent here. The version first published in 1537 under the pseudonym Thomas Matthew, essentially Tyndale's translation as edited by John Rogers, "which welds together the best work of Tyndale and Coverdale, is generally considered to be the real primary version of our English Bible" (Herbert). Herbert 92.
