Coverdale (Myles), Rychard Grafton & Edward Whitchurch

The Great Bible. A facsimile of the 1539 edition. (The Byble in Englyshe, that is to saye the content of all the holy scrypture, bothe of ye olde and newe testament, truly translated after the veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes, by ye dylygent studye of dyuerie excellent learned men, expert in the forsayde tonges), introduction by Yoshio Terasawa, original prospectus loosely inserted, full calf, t.e.g., cloth-covered slip case, Elpis Co., Tokyo, 1991.

***The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorised edition of the Bible in English, authorised by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in Church of England services.