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Auction: 13050 - Postal History and Historical documents
Lot: 2031

(x) Historical Documents
1549, a page from the Great English Bible, the Book of Kinges, chapters 99 and 100 (304x203mm) with three-line initial capitals. Includes Isaiah 37 with the story of King Hezekiah; two horizontal folds and some edge repairs, otherwise fine. From the Gerald E. Wellburn collection.

The Great Bible was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Matthew Bible, combining the Tyndale and Coverdale translations, edited by John Rogers under the pseudonym Thomas Matthew and first published in 1537

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