SOURCE: Hammond, Gerald. “The Two Bibles of Miles Coverdale.” In Making of the English Bible,, pp. 68-88. Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1982.

In following essay, Hammond discusses Coverdale's 1535 Bible and Great Bible, comparing them with each other and the Authorized Version of the Bible.

But to saye the trueth before God, it was nether my laboure ner desyre, to haue this worke put in my hande: neuertheles it greued me that other nacyons shulde be more plenteously prouyded for with the scripture in theyr mother tongue, then we: therefore whan I was instantly requyred, though I coude not do so well as I wolde, I thought it yet my dewtye to do my best, and that with a good wyll. 

from Coverdale's “Prologue” to his 1535 Bible

Because of Tyndale's incarceration and subsequent execution, the English Reformation Bible was completed by Miles Coverdale, a man we might fairly call the...