- Tyndale copyright pages carry two rows of numbers below "Printed in the United States of America": one counts printings and the other gives the last two digits of the year of printing. The lowest number left on each row identifies the printing and its year, so a first printing keeps the 1 on the printing row whatever the copyright date says.
Publisher · founded 1962 · Carol Stream
Tyndale House
Tyndale House is an American Christian publisher founded by Kenneth N. Taylor in 1962, known for the Living Bible, the New Living Translation and the Left Behind novels.
- Editions tracked
- 52
- First editions
- 52
- Books
- 52
- Years
- 1966 to 2020
Tyndale House is a publisher based in Carol Stream, founded in 1962. We track 52 editions it published between 1966 and 2020, 52 of them first editions across 52 books. How Tyndale House marked its first editions is set out below, with a checker for the year on your title page.
About Tyndale House
Tyndale House Publishers is an American Christian publisher founded in 1962 by Kenneth N. Taylor and now based in Carol Stream, Illinois, best known for the Living Bible, the New Living Translation and the Left Behind novels.
Taylor, who worked at Moody Press in Chicago, could not find a publisher for Living Letters, his paraphrase of the New Testament epistles, so he issued it himself in 1962 with a loan, naming the firm after the English Bible translator William Tyndale. Sales were slow until Billy Graham offered the book to his television audience in 1963. Living Prophecies (1965) and The Living New Testament (1967) followed, and the complete Living Bible appeared in 1971; it went on to sell more than 40 million copies in North America.
In 1996 Tyndale published the New Living Translation, a fresh translation by a team of about 90 Hebrew and Greek scholars, revised in 2004 and 2015. Its copyright belongs to the Tyndale House Foundation, which receives a share of the profits for charitable grants.
In fiction Tyndale published Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins's Left Behind series from 1995 to 2007; several later volumes reached number one on the New York Times list, and the series had sold over 65 million copies by 2016. Tony Dungy's Quiet Strength (2007) was a number one hardback non-fiction bestseller.
Taylor's son Mark D. Taylor succeeded him as head of the firm, and Scott Mathews became chief executive in 2021, the year Tyndale bought Hendrickson Publishers and Rose Publishing.
Holding a copy? The first edition checker shows Tyndale House's practice for the year on your title page.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I identify a Tyndale House first edition?
- Tyndale copyright pages carry two rows of numbers below "Printed in the United States of America": one counts printings and the other gives the last two digits of the year of printing. The lowest number left on each row identifies the printing and its year, so a first printing keeps the 1 on the printing row whatever the copyright date says.
How many Tyndale House books does MyVolumes track?
We track 52 editions published by Tyndale House, 52 of them first editions, across 52 books.
Where these facts come from
- Tyndale House, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Left Behind, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Ken Taylor, Translator of Living Bible, Dies at 88, Christianity Today, 2005 (christianitytoday.com)
- Left Behind (Tyndale, 2000 printing), Author Wars (authorwars.com)
- The One Year Bible NLT sample pages, Tyndale House Publishers, 2021 (files.tyndale.com)
- first edition identification by publisher (Allen and Patricia Ahearn), ILAB (ilab.org)
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