Rare 500-Year-Old English Bible Goes on Auction
A very rare copy of the Bible, printed in 1566, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, is going up for auction Sunday in Gloucestershire, England. Found by chance, the Bible has survived in good condition with exceptional print quality, having been rebound in the early 1700s.
According to an article in Printweek, the book was printed only 31 years after the first time an English translation of the Bible was put into print, and 45 years before the King James translation of The Bible was published. Because only about a fifth of men could read in the 1500s, the story says, this Bible would likely have been owned by the Church or a large private house.
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