The Tyndale New Testament
New facsimile edition published by the British Library

The British Library presents the first complete full colour facsimile of William Tyndale's pioneering translation of the New Testament from Greek into English. The British Library holds one of only two surviving copies of Tyndale’s Bible.

The publication in 1526 of a modestly-priced pocket edition of the New Testament in English was arguably the most important single event in the history of the English Reformation. Between 1525 and 1535 William Tyndale produced the English Bible, translating the whole of the New Testament and half of the Old Testament. 3000 or more copies were later printed in 1526 by Peter Schoeffer in the German city of Worms. The pocket-sized Bibles were smuggled into England, ruthlessly sought out by the Church, confiscated and destroyed. Tyndale himself was condemned as a heretic, strangled and burned outside Brussels in 1536.

This new edition contains an authoritative new introduction by David Daniell, Chairman of the Tyndale Society and author of William Tyndale: A Biography (Yale University Press 2001).

For further information, review copies, images or interviews, please contact Ruth Howlett at the British Library Press Office: +44 (0)20 7412 7112 or ruth.howlett@bl.uk

Notes for Editor

The New Testament 1526 edition translated by William Tyndale is published in hardback by the British Library on 8 September 2008. Price £30.00, 700 pages, 152 x 100 mm, 670 colour plates, ISBN 978 0 7123 50 28 0. Available from the British Library Shop (tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7735 / e-mail: bl-bookshop@bl.uk) and online at www.bl.uk/shop as well as other bookshops throughout the UK. Co-published with Hendrickson Publishers, USA.

David Daniell is Chairman Emeritus of the Tyndale Society and has written and lectured extensively on Tyndale's Bible. He is author of William Tyndale: A Biography (Yale University Press 2001).

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