The 1536 version entitled ‘The Newe Testamente Yet Once Agayne Corrected By William Tyndale’ will go up for auction at Chiswick Auctions in West London on 28th November as part of their Printed Books & Manuscripts auction and is estimated to go for £8,000-£10,000.
William Tyndale was a scholar, part of the Protestant Reformation and most famous for his translation of the complete Bible into English from the Hebrew and Greek.
Before Tyndale, the Bible was primarily heard and read in Latin by scholars and clergy, meaning very few people could understand it, let alone read it at home on their own.
Because of his work, Tyndale was charged with heresy and burned to death.
Although 3,000 copies were made of the first translation, most of these were hunted down and destroyed as it was considered heretical to own one.
This version is only the fourth copy to be on sale since the 1970s.
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