Includes bibliographical references (p. [852]-866) and index.

Part 1: Before printing -- The Bible in Britain from the earliest times to AD 850 -- The Anglo-Saxon Bible, 850-1066 -- Romance and piety, 1066-1350 -- The Wyclif ('Lollard') Bibles -- Before and after Wyclif : the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Part 2: After printing -- The Greek New Testament of Erasmus, 1516 and after -- The Reformation in England -- William Tyndale ?1494-1536 -- After Tyndale -- Coverdale's Bible, 1535 -- 'Matthew's' Bible, 1537 -- The Great Bible, 1539 -- Towards the reign of Edward VI, 1547-1553 -- An English plain style, and Bible reading -- The Geneva New Testament, 1557 -- The Geneva Bible, 1560 -- Reformation Psalms -- The Bishops' Bible, 1568 -- Laurence Tomson and the revision of the Geneva New Testament, 1576 -- The Rheims New Testament, 1582 -- 'Geneva-Tomson-Junius', 1599 -- Explorers of the Revelation : Spenser and Shakespeare -- The English Bible in America : from the beginnings to 1640 -- The King James version, 1611 -- Printing the King James Bible -- The Bible in England in the seventeenth century -- The consolidation of KJV, 1660-1710 -- The Bible in England and Ireland, 1710-1760 -- More Psalms, and hymns -- The Bible in America to 1776 -- The English Bible against fashionable deism : Handel and Pope as examples -- The English Bible in America, 1777 to the early nineteenth century -- Towards 1769, and after -- Mathew Carey and the American Bible flood -- The nineteenth-century bible in Britain, and two artists -- The English Revised Version, 1870-85 -- The English Bible in America, 1841-1899 -- Bible translation into English in the twentieth century.