Printing of the Coverdale Bible was completed on 4 October 1535. Compiled and translated by Myles Coverdale, it was the first complete printed English Bible.

English translations of the Bible already existed. Versions associated with John Wycliffe and his followers had circulated in manuscript from the late fourteenth century. William Tyndale also printed an English New Testament. He translated parts of the Old Testament, but he did not complete the whole Bible.

Coverdale used Tyndale’s translations where they were available. For much of the remaining Old Testament, he worked from German and Latin versions rather than directly from Hebrew. The result brought the Old and New Testaments together in a complete printed English edition for the first time.

The first edition was printed on the Continent, probably at Antwerp. Coverdale dedicated it to Henry VIII, whose break with Rome had changed the political circumstances surrounding English religious texts. The 1535 Bible lacked the official status later English editions would receive.

Complete English Bibles appeared with royal approval in 1537, and Coverdale later worked on the Great Bible produced under Henry VIII. His 1535 translation remained influential. His Psalms version passed into later English worship and formed the basis of the Psalter used in the Book of Common Prayer.