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159613898London: Christopher Barker 1596. First Edition. Ornamented opening initial. 1 vols. 16 x 11 inches framed to 21 1/2 x 17 inches overall. Frayed along right hand margin touching a few letters old folds and small rust-stain at top left margin else fine and despite the defects noted an attractive item. First Edition. Ornamented opening initial. 1 vols. 16 x 11 inches framed to 21 1/2 x 17 inches overall. Elizabeth I Orders Price Controls 1596. A handsome black-letter proclamation forbidding in view of scarcities the raising of the price of "corne" in England wheat and the making of starch. Issued "At our Mannor of Greenwich the last day of July in the xxxviii yeere of our Raigne."<br/><br/>A FINE ELIZABETHAN DOCUMENT OF ENGLAND'S ECONOMIC HISTORY. New STC 8251; Steele A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns 884; Hughes and Larkin Tudor Royal Proclamations 781; not in Kress or Goldsmith Christopher Barker unknown books
15592653London: : Imprinted… in Povles Churcheyarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cavvood Printers to the Quenes Maiestie 1559. FIRST EDITION of the first visitation articles of Elizabeth’s reign. . Quarto:. 18 x 13 cm. 14 pp. Collation: A-B4 lacking blank leaf B4 Bound in 19th c. marbled boards. A fine wide-margined copy. The title is set within an architectural woodcut border McKerrow & Ferguson 83 with Cawood’s monogram in the shield. A large woodcut initial of Arcas and Callisto appears on leaf A2. With the signature of the 16th c. book collector Humphrey Dyson 1582-1633 at the foot of the title page. The bookplate of Albert Ehrman with his motto “Pro Viribus Summis Contendo†is affixed to the front pastedown. This was lot 270 in the 1978 sale of Ehrman’s library. Very rare. ESTC locates 4 copies in the U.S.: Folger Huntington Harvard Yale. First edition of the first visitation articles established for the reformed church after Elizabeth’s accession. The visitation articles are a series of 56 questions that were to be asked by church commissioners as they visited each parish within the kingdom. They include inquiries into the number of people imprisoned starved or burned at the stake during Mary’s reign; the number of known drunkards adulterers brawlers sorcerers book burners possessors of unlawful books and minstrels or others who “do use to synge or saye anye songes or dytties that be vyle or uncleane and especially in derision of anye godly ordre nowe sette forth and established†in a given parish. “On 19 July 1559 Elizabeth issued a royal proclamation publishing her fifty-three ‘Injunctions’ which set forth to the clergy the form and substance of the Elizabethan Church established by the 1559 Act of Uniformity. Besides calling ‘all ecclesiastical persons’ to observe all the laws that restored to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction over the ‘state ecclesiastical’ the Injunctions specified that educated and licensed preachers should preach the Word of God or lacking such preachers that homilies should be read; that accessories for Catholic worship should be removed from churches and that Bibles should replace them… They called upon the Queen’s subjects to live in charity and to avoid religious epithets like ‘papist’ or ‘schismatic’ as words of reproach. Among the Injunctions one called for press licensing to deter printed books against the religious settlement… Besides those statutes that established Elizabeth’s succession and Church settlement among the earliest acts of Elizaneth I’s first Parliament were those that extended the Marian treason statutes. The first of these included in the definition of high treason writing or printing anything saying that the Queen was not entitled to rule or that someone else was. The second act extended the Marian statute that criminalized false slanderous and seditious news about the Queen.†Clegg Censorship and the Press 1580-1720 pp. 9-10 That the re-implementation of Protestant reforms was of paramount importance for Elizabeth is reflected in the second and third articles: The second article inquires “Whether in theyr Churches and chapels al ymages shrynes al tables Candelstickes Trindelles or rolles of Mare Pictures Payntynges and al other monuments of fayned and false myracles Pylgrymages ydolatrye and superstition be removed abolished and destroyed.†While the third asks whether the vicars… “openly playnley and distinctlye recite to theyr paryshners in the Pulpit the Lordes prayer the Belief and the tenne commaundements in Englyshe.†Further each parishioner is to be “admonished… that they ought not to presume to receive the sacrament of the body & bloud of Christ before they can perfectly recite the Lordes prayer the articles of the faith and the x. commaundementes in Englyshe.â€Article 12 And of course the old rite is to be suppressed. In article 9 the Commissioners are asked to discover whether any of the vicars curates or ministers declare “anyte thynge to the extollynge or settynge forth of vayne and superstitious religion pylgrimages reliques or ymages or lyghtyngge of candelles kyssinge knelynge eckynge of the same ymages.†The question regarding sorcery seems to encompass the work of midwives: “Whether you knowe any that doe use charmes sorcerye enchauntmentes invocations circles witchcrafts southsayinge or any lyke craftes or ymagniationes invented by the Devyll and specyallye in the tyme of womens travayle.†As regards books the 46th article asks “What bokes of goddess scripture you have delivered to be burnte or otherwise distroied ad to whom ye have delivered the same.†And the 52nd concerns “makers bringers biers sellers kepers or conveyers of anye unlawfull books whiche might styre or provoke seditionâ€. Provenance: Humphrey Dyson 1582-1633 a scrivener and notary was a noteworthy English book collector with possible ties to Shakespeare's circle. “Humfrey Dyson d. 1633 book collector was probably the son of Christopher Dyson d. 1609 wax chandler of the parish of St Alban Wood Street London and his wife Mary. He was practising as a notary public by 1609 when he witnessed Christopher's will and continued to do so until shortly before his death drawing up wills and other documents. He was a citizen of London as a member of the Wax Chandlers' Company from 1603 and married Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Speght d. 1621 the editor of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate. “Dyson is notable chiefly for the enormous library he amassed. No catalogue of the library is known apart from six notebooks All Souls College Oxford MS 117 listing in order of date of publication those books ‘touching as well the State Ecclesiasticall as Temporall of the Realme of England’: in 1631 these alone totalled nearly 1100. He also owned a large number of works of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature; in some instances his is now the unique surviving copy. Nearly all the extant printed proclamations of Queen Elizabeth I's reign belong to the seven sets each of which he collected together bound and provided with its own specially printed title-page 1618. Dyson printed nothing else but he collaborated in the 1633 revision of John Stow's Survey of London—an edition that included many copies of acts of parliament and of the common council of London. “Dyson died between 7 January 1633 when he made his will as a parishioner of St Olave Jewry London and 28 February 1633 when it was proved. In it he made monetary bequests to his four daughters and two sons allowed the use of his professional papers to his apprentices and gave a two-volume book of statutes to ‘my noble friend Sir William Paddy … to be by him put and given to the library of St John's College in Oxford’. He directed simply that his other books be sold by William Jumper; a great many of them were acquired by Richard Smith d. 1675 and were dispersed when his library was sold in 1682. Thomas Baker wrote: ‘There are Books chiefly in old English almost in every Library that have belong'd to H. Dyson with his Name upon them’ Hearne 7.369.â€Nigel Ramsay ODNB STC 10118 Imprinted… in Povles Churcheyarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cavvood, Printers to the Quenes Maiestie, unknown books
15683182London: William Seres 1568. 4to 216 x 147 mm. 8 118 leaves. Roman italic and greek types; printed shoulder notes. 8-line historiated woodcut initial opening the dedication 4-line initial opening the text. Title a bit soiled and ink-speckled some old crease marks to corners dampstaining in lower portion of last 30 or so leaves a few small stains including early inkstains in some lower margins.Contemporary London binding of ca. 1570 by the "Macdurnan Gospels Binder" of brown calf over pasteboard both covers gold-blocked and -tooled to a center- and corner-piece design with large cornucopia corner tools Foot K1 and K2 at center the gold-blocked arms of Elizabeth I within the Garter and surmounted by a coronet Oldfield British Armorial Bindings stamp 1 a semis of small gilt trefoils smooth spine gilt with small tools and intersecting fillets evidence of two fore-edge ties edges gilt the gilding largely faded; a few small gouges old restorations to corners obscuring the corner edges of five of the eight cornerpieces and to upper board edges joints and extremities of spine; modern folding case.Provenance: Elizabeth I of England supra-libros the binding probably commissioned and presented to her by the dedicatee Peter Osborne; Richard Latewar 1560-1601 preacher and Neolatin poet neat inscription on title consisting of two lines of Latin verse praising this posthumous work Bernardus niveos moriens imitates olores / Edidit hos dulces in sua busta sonos signed with his Latin name Richardus a Sero Bello a correction f. 98r and five marginal notes apparently in the same hand ff. 4v of the dedication 27v 31r 48r 65r 83v; Latin motto or quotationat end in a different early hand; John Wright purchase inscription on title stating that he paid 12 pence for the book in 1613 Johannes Wryght p. 12 d / 1613 a few marginalia probably in the same hand some marginal notation symbols and light underlines; with Bernard Quaritch catalogue 166 January 1897 Examples of the Art of Bookbinding no. 21 the text of the catalogue on a typed sheet mounted inside front cover. First Edition of a devotional treatise by a reformist Yorkshire preacher bound for presentation to the Queen.This was John Bernard's only published work. The manuscript was found in Bernard's study after his death by his brother Thomas who had it published dedicating the volume to Peter Osborne the lord treasurer's remembrancer of the exchequer. "According to Thomas Bernard his brother wrote the Oratio pia early in Mary's reign when the persecution of protestants was beginning. Supported by much classical and patristic learning John Bernard pursues the question of 'where the true tranquillitie of the minde may be founde' English translation of 1570 The Tranquillitie of the Minde 35. His standpoint is firmly evangelical. Proclaiming a scripture-based religion he rejects clerical celibacy and the doctrine of purgatory and asserts that if no morally worthy priest is available to comfort those troubled in conscience the latter should go instead to 'the lay man which is indued with the same giftes that are in a godly Minister'" Oxford DNB. The work was printed by the noted Protestant printer William Sere who had received letters patent for the printing of psalters primers and prayer-books in 1554; he lost this privilege under Queen Mary and regained it upon the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558.The "MacDurnan Gospels Binder" a shop or binder active from the 1560s to the early 17th century after about 1580 the shop's material is associated with the binder John Bateman derives its name from the 9th-century Gospels of Maelbright MacDurnan Abbot of Armagh d. 927 now in the Library of Lambeth Palace which was bound in this London shop for Archbishop Matthew Parker the bindery's main patron. "Besides binding manuscripts for Parker and presentation copies of books in whose production he was concerned this bindery bound presentation copies of books produced by most of the leading members of the London book trade between 1567 and 1577" Nixon Five Centuries. Nixon and Miriam Foot recorded nine bindings from the shop originally owned by Queen Elizabeth not including this one which appears neither in Nixon's 1970 census of 34 books bound in the shop nor in Foot's 70-item addendum to his census. Others were owned by King James I Henry Prince of Wales Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester William Cecil Lord Burghley and other luminaries.This binding is decorated with a pair of the distinctive cornerpiece blocks that characterize the shop's work; they are reproduced by Miriam Foot in The Henry Davis Gift volume I plate facing p. 40 as nos. K1 and K2. She reproduces two bindings decorated with these blocks dated by her to ca. 1567 and 1570 cf. vol. 1 no. 3 = vol. 2 no. 48 and vol. 2 49. Another binding with the same cornerpiece blocks though with modern overpainting is held by the Folger Shakespeare Library and reproduced in their Bindings Image Collection STC 17518. The present binding may have been commissioned for presentation to the Queen by Peter Osborne Officer of the Exchequer to whom the work is dedicated. The inscription by the poet and divine Richard Latewar who died in 1601 appears to indicate that the volume passed out of Queen Elizabeth's hands before that date.STC 1924. Cf. Howard M. Nixon Five Centuries of English Bookbinding 21; Nixon "Elizabethan Gold-tooled Bindings" Essays in honour of Victor Scholderer Mainz 1970 census pp. 254-262; Miriam Foot Henry Davis Gift I:35-49; Paul Needham Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings no. 87. William Seres unknown books
