Sometimes you can tell a book by its cover. David Daniell’s tome features five shelves crowded with leather-bound Bibles on the front cover and a woodcut of William Tyndale’s martyrdom on the back.

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 ...