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Excluding the title borders ->57 separate blocks are used for 94 illustraations.
According to an MS note Frey was able to trace no more than 8
copies of this edition.

It was because the dissernmmilion do the Scriptures in English was
prohibited by the ecuclesiastical authorities that Tyndale was obliged
[inserted] c. clairp. 61 155.142 C 58 (Santa Clara) [end inserted]to take refute in Germany to complete his Translation of the New
Testament, the 1st to be painted in the English language, which was
issued by Peter Schoeffer at Worms in 152506. Tyndale met
a martyr's death in 1536 before he had translated the whole
Bible, which he certainly would have done had he lived. The
completion of the English Bible ever to be printed was published in 1535.
Even today it is not known for certain where or by whom it was
printed, but from the evidence of its types most authorities
consider it was printed at Cologne by Cervicorn or Soter.
L.A. Sheppard, however, considers the book to have been printed
by the same printers at Marburg.

This Coverdale Bible was reprinted in 1537, ostensibly by James
Nicolson of Southwark, a native of the Low Countries, who
had a printing office in St. Thomas's Hospital, but actually
Nicolson only imported the sheetsof the edition, which he
purchased from Jacob van Meteren, the Antwerp merchant
who had subsidized Corendale's Bible.

British Museum --> The earliest printing of the Bible in English-P. Quentell - Cologne 1525 New Testament
"fyue sunday interpreters" were - The Swiss German version
of zueingli and Leo Juda (printed at Zurich 1524-9), 2) the
Latin version of Sanctus Pagninus (the 1st edition appeared
in 1528), 3) Luther's German Version (finished in 1532),
the 4) Vulgate and 5) Tyndale.

1537 [inserted] In the Psalter te ordinary Latin headings are prefixed. These had seen omitted in the 1st ed. [end inserted] -- its large initials framed with design from the Danca of
Duth seius. Title within the same woodcut border as that employed for the 1st ed.
1535 -- title page by Holbein
title page of New Testament - unknown artist
- shows the evangelists in the 4 courses.
A Literary History of the Bible - Gedder MacCragan - 1968
BS 455 M 32 (West Valley)