The New Testament in English (Worms, 1526)

The book is a small octavo that names neither translator, printer nor place. The Stuttgart library, which identified its copy in the 1990s, attributes the printing to Peter Schöffer the younger at Worms on the evidence of the woodcut border of the title page. That page, which survives only in this copy, reads in modern spelling: “The New Testament as it was written and caused to be written by them which heard it.”

At the end William Tyndale added a short address to the reader, asking the learned to mend what he had done amiss and promising a revision. The library’s page says that the British Library bought its copy, which lacks the title page, in 1994, and that a very defective third copy is at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. The book is cited here as an object and for that address.