W. Tyndale. The Newe Testamente M.D.XXVI: The Gospell off S. Mathew, S. Marke, S. Luke, and S. Jhon [The Four Gospels of the New Testament], 4 vols.. Anvil Press 1954-55, Lexington, KY, 1954.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: S. Jhon: 144 pp.; S. Luke: 190 pp.; S. Mathew: 174 pp.; S. Marke: 114 pp.; each 6.5 x 5 in.; tan paper-covered boards, printed paper title labels on the spines, edges untrimmed. This text of the four gospels is based on reformer William Tyndale's 1526 English translation of the Bible. Each volume contains a two-page spread of a pair of woodcuts depicting one of the four Evangelists and his symbol (the Angel, Lion, Bull and Eagle), after drawings in the Holkham Bible Picture Book, an early fourteenth-century English manuscript. Designed by Victor Hammer, the presswork executed by Jacob Hammer at their Anvil Press. "This was certainly one of the most ambitious projects of the press" (Patkus, The Privately Printed Bible, p. 132). One of 300 sets printed on Arnold Unbleached paper. With the elegant book label of Norman J. Sondheim (designed by Leo Wyatt) in each volume. A clean, fine set (though in the S. Jhon volume, issued in 1954, there is some light foxing on the covers and light binding adhesive shadows on the endpapers. All textblocks are clean and bright. The previous owner protected each volume in a plain paper wrapper, so the covers are free of soiling. An Introduction to Victor and Carolyn Hammer, Anvil Press 15.

Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

W. Tyndale, translation. THE NEWE TESTAMENTE M.D.XXXVI Four volumes (The Four Gospels of the New Testament). Anvil Press, Lexington, KY, 1954.

Price: US$1595.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Four volumes. Taupe paper-covered boards with lapping spine labels, drop-back boxes , large 12mo, Illustrated with woodcuts. The Gospell off S. Jhon, S. Luke, s. Matthew, and S. Mark. Based on Tyndale's 1526 English Translation. One of 300 copies laid out by Victor Hammer and printed by Jacob Hammer from Koch's Jessen type on Arnold unbleached paper at their Anvil Press. Woodcuts of the Evangelists and their Symbols are by Victor Hammer after the Holkham Picture Bible Drawings. One of the most ambitious and substantial projects of the Press. Absolutely fine, fresh, uncut copies housed in near fine taupe cloth-covered drop-back boxes with leather labels gilt, lined with marbled paper and protected with archival mylar. Scarce in this superlative state.

Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.