Copy of William Tyndale translation expected to fetch £35,000 at Sotheby’s, 50 years after current owner bought it for 25 shillings in a secondhand bookshop
A rare copy of the first Bible to be printed in English, bought by its current owner for 25 shillings (£1.25), is to be auctioned next
month.
The William Tyndale translation of the New Testament into English is expected to fetch around £35,000 at Sotheby’s.
Its anonymous owner bought the edition while looking around a secondhand bookshop in Cambridge in the 1960s, when he was a student.
It was printed in 1537, from Tyndale’s first complete Bible printed in English in 1526.
Tyndale’s Bible was taken to be a direct challenge to the hegemony of the Roman Catholic church and English laws to maintain the church’s position. After being arrested in Antwerp, Tyndale was executed as a heretic in 1536 and copies of the book discovered in Britain were burnt.
Henry VIII eventually ordered four English translations of the [...]
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