Grafton and Whitchurche, in conjunction, printed the first issue of the Great or Cromwell's Bible, a folio book dated 1539, a fair copy of which was sold at the Crawford sale for £111; also the New Testament, both in Latin and English, after the vulgare texte (Coverdale's version), 1538-39, 8vo, partly printed at Paris by Regnault and completed in London. Nearly the entire impression was seized and burnt by order of the Inquisition, and the few copies that remain are extraordinarily rare and valuable.
JOHN WAYLANDE, 1537.
A printer who, according to the best authorities, lived at the sign of the "Blue Garland in Fleet Street," and, in the year 1541, at the sign of the "Sun, against the Conduit". He was in business in 1558.
The Primer in English and Latin, after Salisburye Use, some leaves in fac-simile, bound by Rivière in morocco, 22nd August, 1558, 12mo, £20.
Tragedies of all such Princes as fell from their estates throughe the Mutabilitie of Fortune, translated into Englysh by John Lidgate, black letter, some leaves mended, no date, folio, £4 10s.
Prymer in Latin and Englishe...and Almanacke (1555-71), black letter, brown morocco extra, by Rivière, 1555, sm. 4to, £27.
Prymer in Englishe (black letter) and Latine (roman type), after Salisbury Use, with Calendar, &c., woodcuts, calf, 1557, 16mo (only six copies are known), £13.
Prymer in Englyshe, with Calendar, black letter, title in fac-simile, brown morocco extra, Ihon Mayler for Ihon Waylande, 1539, sm. 4to (only four copies are known), £91.
William Myddylton, or Middleton, succeeded to the business of Robert Redman, which he carried on at the sign of the "George, next to St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street". This printer turned out some 30 different publications, known to bibliographers. There is no doubt, however, that many more must be lost, or remain undiscovered. Myddylton probably died somewhere about the year 1550. Another printer, by name Henry Middleton, flourished about the year 1579. His works are scarce, but not nearly so valuable as those of William.
Froissart's Cronycles of Englande, &c., translated by Bourchier, 2 vols., black letter, 1525, folio, russia extra, (printed by Myddylton and Pinson), £9 12s.
