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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 137
the printing of the first English Bible, in Cover-dales translation, in 1535, folio, but even this was printedabroad, the latest investigation giving it to Van Meteren atAntwerp. The woodcuts in it are by Hans Sebald Beham ;we reproduce one representing Cain killing Abel. Tyndall hadpreviously… … Fig. 70.—Woodcut lioni Coverdales Bible, 1535.Cain killing Abel. .The size usually adopted was in folio, and in this size theseries of Chronicles appeared : Froissart, by Pynson, in twovolumes, 1523-5; Holinshed, in two volumes, 1577 — thefirst and genuine edition of this chronicle, with…
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