Sales catalogues: Quaritch

Date:
October 1871
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/4
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Duke hys Grace of Somerset, as appeareth by hys Epystle set before the same, 12mo. sheet {il supplied in contemporary MS. calf neat, £3. Lond. Gwalter Lynne, 1550 VERY RARE : Sir Mark Sykes’ copy sold for £10. 10s, the present one fetched at Bandinel’s sale in 1861, £5. ‘The Protector Duke of Somerset saw the work in MS. during his confinement in the Tower, and it afforded him so much comfort that on his release, he caused it to be printed and graced it with a preface. The book has no indication that he was not the author; but it appears that the original German was by Werdmiiller, and the translation by the great English reformer Coverdale. The former owner, “Thomas C * * * London, Habardasher,” about 1570, has . added several prayers in MS. at beginning and end, which are very curious. 1220 CRANMER (Archbp. .T.) Answer unto a crafty and sophisticall Cavilla- | tion devised by Stephen Gardiner late Byshop of Winchester agaynst _ the trewe and godly doctrine of the moste holy Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of our Saviour Jesu Christe, sm. folio, with woodcut fron- tispiece of the burning of Cranmer, Black Letter, curious IS. notes, by T. Aitken, £3. 15s : Lohn Daye, 1580 A very large and curious copy, shewing the work to have been printed on paper used previously for some other book with headings only. _ 1221 FYSSHER (Johan, bysshop of Rochester) This treatyse concerning the fruytful saynges of Dauyd the kynge and prophete in the seven peny- tencyall psalmes. Devyded in seven sermons, was made and compyled by the ryght reverente fader in god Johan Fyssher, doctoure of dyvynyte and bysshop of Rochester, at the exortacion and sterynge of the moost excellet princesse Margarete coutesse of Rychemoit and Derby and moder to our soverayne lorde kynge Henry the vii, sm. 4to. with the portcullis on the title and Caxton’s mark at the end, blue morocco extra, gilt edges, from the libraries of Mr. Utterson and the Rev. T. Corser, £28. Emprynted at London in the Fletestrete .... by Wynkyn de Worde .. . . 1509 Very rAre. Dr. Dibdin only mentions a single copy of this edition. There are, however, two others known: onein the Lambeth library, the other in the British Museum. Besides these, the few copies (perhaps three) that have turned up during forty years, were all defective. 1222 Fisner (Bishop). Assertionis Lutherane Confutatio, sm. 4to. in the original oak boards, covered with stamped pigskin, with clasps, 20s 1524 This edition (unnoticed by Lowndes) which bears a woodcut of Henry VIII’s arms ye title and at end, is without place or printer’s name, but was probably printed at Basel. / 1223 FRITH. A Boke made by John Fryth, Prysoner in the Tower of London, answerynge unto M. Mores letter, which he wrote agaynst the fyrste lytle treatyse that John Fryth made concernynge the Sacrament, 12mo. Black Wetter, calf extra, antique style, bound by ¥F. Riviere, £2. 2s Imprynted in the yare of our Lorde, Rychard Jugge, 1548 Frith was burnt at Smithfield in 1533. 1224 HESKYNS (T.) Parliament of Chryste, with leaf of woodcuts following the title, folio, calf extra, gilt edges, £4. Antwerpe by W. Silvius, 1566 A stout Roman Catholic .reply to a “wicked Sermon” by Bishop Jewell, re- garding the doctrine of the “Real Presence.” The author begins his preface thus : —“ Detesting your heresie yet loving your person.” 1225 HOOPER (Bp. J.) A Declaration of the ten holy comaundments of all- mygthye God, wroten Exo, 20, Deu. 5, Collectyd out of the scripture Canonicall by Joanne Hooper, 12mo. Black Letter, rns? EDITION, very scarce, but Bi and vill in facsimile, blue morocco extra, old style, 258 no place ( ? Zurich) anno M.D.XLVIII The preface is dated 5 Nouembris, Anno M.D.XLIx. This copy belonged in 1644 to a Mr. Sherman, who has filled the margins with