[The whole workes of W. Tyndall,

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first and only collected edition The first and only edition of the collected English works of the Protestant martyrs William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes. The text was compiled, or at least overseen by the historian John Foxe (d.1587) in John Day's printing house shortly after the second edition of the Actes and Monuments had been brought to the press. This, the 1570 edition, greatly expanded upon the life of this 'blessed martyr', an expansion that was transmitted to the present work, which contains 478 pages of Tyndale's English prose, including his biblical exegesis, treatises on Mammon , The Obedience of a Christen Man , Papisticall Prelate , his Answer to Sir Thomas More and others, with an index containing perhaps 1500 entries (see Patrick Collinson, 'William Tyndale and the Course of the English Reformation', Reformation , Volume 1 , 1996). In full, the collection includes all of Tyndale's non-translation prose, including two works of spurious origin: 'A Protestation of the State of Souls Department' and treatise upon 'Signes and Sacramentes'. Frith contributes a further twelve works, and Barnes some fifteen. This was to be the sole edition produced, and Tyndale's works were not reprinted again until the Park Library series in the mid-nineteenth century. An impressive example, substantially complete (with one of the three woodcut illustrations present; lacking six leaves in total) of this important anthology of the 'principall teachers of thys Church of Engla

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