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1585456London: Printed by Christopher Barker 1585. Leather Bound. Very Good. 7 x 9 inches. 4to. ¶3 - ¶8 A - E 8 leaf quires F 5 leaves. Lacks title page and following leaf. Scattered stains and soiling mostly at margins. Small darker stain at top margin. Loss to lower forecorner of B8 affecting about 12 lines of text. Kalendar printed in red and black. Colophon at end with ownership inscription of John Purkiss dated February 1 1768. Griffiths 1585/3. Bound with: The Holy Bible Geneva/Breeches version. London: Printed by Christopher Barker 1585. A-3H 8 leaf quires 3I 2 leaf quire 4 leaves 3K-3Y 8 leaf quires 3Z 10 leaf quire. Printed in two column black letter type. Occasional small closed tear with no loss and a few marginal notes shaved esp. 3O. Lacks preliminaries and 3P4&5. 18th Century notes regarding Purkiss family on verso of NT title page. Herbert 187 following Herbert 165 and Herbert 170. Bound with: Herrey Robert F. Two right profitable and fruitfull Concordances or large and ample Tables Alphabeticall. London: Imprinted by Christopher Barker 1585. A-L 8 leaf quires M 4 leaf quire. Bound with: Sternhold Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English meetre. London: Assignes of Richard Day 1585. A - G 8 leaf quires lacking G6 - G8. Last few pages tatty with slight loss of text. ESTCS90640. Bound in dark brown paneled calf with recent sympathetic rebacking with four raised bands offset by gilt rules. An excellent copy of the 1552 English BCP and Geneva Bible. Both standards for many American colonists. Printed by Christopher Barker unknown
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
1521184311521 Broché - 15 x 21 - année 1970 - Librairie Hachette -
158746401414s.l.,, s.n.,, 1587 ; in-8, vélin de l’époque. 8ff., 281pp. – Voici ce que dit Brunet p.121: «Cette traduction est, rare, et même ce serait un livre précieux», se rapportant au prix d’adjudication de l’exemplaire Morel-Vindé. Bayle dans son dictionnaire nous apprend qu’il existe deux traductions françaises, publiées en 1587. Celle-ci, selon lui, est la meilleure. L’originale latine publiée à Cologne est de 1585. Celle de Rome d’après laquelle fut faite la traduction est de 1586. N. Sanders, un Catholique exalté, naquit en 1527 à Charlewood (Surrey). Il vécut à Rome, assista au Concile de Trente puis vécut 12 ans à Louvain où il publia divers livres de controverses. En 1579 il fut nommé nonce d’Irlande. Il serait mort de faim en 1579 après la déroute de l’armée catholique, dans une forêt où il s’était réfugié. Cet ouvrage est son texte le plus passionné. Exemplaire dans sa première reliure. Sur le dernier f. on trouve collé un très beau bois gravé avec un découpage montrant une scène de danse macabre dans un encadrement noir avec des larmes. –Mouillure pâle en marge de plusieurs feuillets.
1552188391552 Broché - 15,5 x 23,5 -430 pp - annéé 1975 - Editions Hachette Litterature -
1505rx1297Michel le Noir Relié 1505 Ensemble complet des 4 livres de Froissart, en trois volumes reliés plein vélin sur ais de bois, dos ornés de fers qui sont plus probablement du XVIII° siècle ainsi que les pièces de titre, la peau a-t-elle été changée, c'est difficile à dire, mais sa patine nous permet de la dater d'au moins du XVII°, peut-être du XVI°, il semblerait que les gardes aient été refaites également, sans doute au XVIII lors de la pose des pièces de titre. Le Premier volume de Froissart Des croniques de France : dangleterre, descoce ; Despaigne : de bretaigne : de gascongne : de flandres. Et lieux circonvoisins. A la fin : Cy finist le premier volume… Imprime a paris par Michel le noir libraire demourant au bout du pont nostre dame devant saint denis de la chartre a lymage nostre Dame. Lan mil cinq cens et cinq le xxviii. Iour de mars. Petit in-folio de 8 feuillets, CCLXXI, complet de tout ses feuillets Au verso du 271è feuillet, la marque de Michel le Noir. Dans ce premier volume, des travaux de vers sans gravité, une mouillure marginale sur les 64 dernières pages. Second volume de Froissart, des croniques de France, dangleterre, descoce, despaigne, debretaigne, de gascogne, de Fralndres et lieux circonvoisins. A la fin : Cy finit le second volume des croniques de messire Jehan Froissart sur les guerres de France, dangleterre, escoce, espaigne, Bretaigne, Flandres et autres lieux voisins. Imprimé à Paris pour françois regnault libraire demourant en la rue saint-jacques à lenseigne sainct Claude. Dans ce volume les cahiers sont quaternes excepté F qui est quinterne et A et G qui sont ternes. CCLVVIV feuillets, colationné complet, volume non daté, mais comme nous le verrons notre troisième volume étant daté de 1518 on peut supposer qu'il fait parti du même tirage. Le tiers volume de Froissart, des cronicques de France, dangleterre, descoce, despaigne, de Bretaigne, de Gascongne, de Flandres et lieux circonvoisins. Dans ce dernier volume le cahier A est terne. Le tiers volume contient CCXXXI feuillet il et est bien complet. A la fin : Cy finist le tiers volume de messire Jehan Froissart sur les croniques de france, dagleterre, escoce, spaigne, Bretaigne et flandres et lieux voisins. Imprime à Paris po François regnault libraire demourant en la Rue Saint jacques a lenseigne sainct claude. Le quart volume de Froissart, des cronicques de France, dangleterre, descoce, despaigne, de Bretaigne, de gascogne, de Flandres et lieux circonvoisins. Ce dernier volume contient deux feuillets non numéroté, puis CXI feuillets complet. A la fin : Cy finit le quart volume de messire jehan froissart sur les croniques de France, dagleterre, escoce, espaigne, Bretaigne, Flandres, Navarre, Arragon, Naples, Hongrie lieux circonvoisins imprime à Paris l'an de grace mil cinq cens et dixhuyt, le vii° jour doctobre pour françois regnault libraire demourant en la rue sainct Jacques à lenseigne sainct claude ; nous avons ici un ensemble composite un volume de 1505 pour Michel Le Noir, puis le second, le tiers et le quart volume dans une édition plus tardive de 1518, le tout avec une reliure sur ais de bois, très probablement plus tardive, bien que les ais de bois ne soient plus que très rarement utilisé après le seizième. Nous sommes donc en face d'une reliure qui peut être une reliure à l'antique réalisé à la fin du XVII° ou au XVIII°, ou face à une reliure modifié au cours du temps. On ne présente plus Froissart qui couvrit la partie de la guerre de cent ans de 1326 à 1400. Froissart meurt en 1410 sans, très probablement, finir son ouvrage. Il existe plus de cent manuscrits copiés lors du XV° siècles. La première édition imprimée est donnée par Antoine Verard vers 1495. Celle de 1505 est la troisième, celle de 1518 est la 10°. Les ensembles homogènes sont très rares. Notre exemplaire est frais malgré les travaux de vers des deux premiers volumes (fréquents dans le premier volume, rares dans le second). Les reliures sont fatiguées (surtout les dos, voir photos, les plats sont propres) mais leur patine est agréable. Un bel exemplaire bien complet, collationné. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
1524169581524 Broché - 15 x 24 - 377 pp - année 2005 - Editions XO -
1552188421552 Broché - 15,5 x 23,5 -406 pp - annéé1974 - Editions Hachette Litterature -
1523169981523 Broché - 15 x 23 - 510 pp - année 2000 - Editions Denoel -
1552188401552 Broché - 15,5 x 23,5 -627 pp - annéé 1973 - Editions Hachette Litterature -
160014959012 : 16 cm. Um 1600.
155522287Basel, Isengrin, 1555. Titel mit Druckermarke, 691 SS., 37 n.n. SS. Index, 1 Bl. mit wdh. Druckermarke. Dedikationsseite und 1. Seite des Textes mit Schmuckbordüren und -initialen vom Meister IF (= Jacob Faber). Fol., moderner meisterlicher Lederband, Vorsätze und Kapitale erneuert, goldgeprägtes Rückenschildchen.
1593R121114s.l. [Rome], s.n. ["Excursum"] 1593 [6bl.] + 361pp. + [9] pp. (index & errata) + [6bl.] pp., engraved vignet on title with the motto "Melior post funera vita" ("Life is better after the funeral"), ancient manuscript ex-libris on title : "Ex Libris Joannis Schrick", 15x10cm., contemporary full vellum (stained, some loss of vellum at lower ends of boards, missing ties), text and interior are clean and bright except for few occasional ancient text underlinings, text within borders, cfr. De Backer-Sommervogel VI-301-no.13, [This Catholic polemic, written in a time of great tension between protestant England and Catholic Spain, is a fierce response to an official edict issued by Queen Elizabeth I in November 1591 in which she enacted strict measures against Catholics and Jesuits in England], R121114
159761680Frankfurt a. M., Christian Egenolff Erben, 1597. 4°. 1 Bl., 70 S., 2 Bll., Mod. Ppbd.
158665494Leiden 1586. Originalt kobberstikk. Arkets størrelse : 545 cm X 405 cm. I passepartout. Latin. <br/><br/><em>“Ioannes a Doetecum Fecitâ€. Latinsk tekst pÃ¥ arkets bakside. Et meget dekorativt kart. Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer ca. 1533-1606 hydrograf og seiler. Hans “Spieghel der Zeevaerdt†utkom hos Christophe Plantin i Leiden i 1584-85 og den latinske utgaven “Speculum Nauticum†utkom Ã¥ret etter. </em> unknown
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
152168857London: Richard Pynson 1521. Full Description:<br> <br> HENRY VIII King of England. Assertio Septem Sacramentorum Aduersus Martin. Lutheru. Aedita ab Invictissimo Angliae et Franciae Rege et do. Hyberniae Henrico Eius Nominis Octavo. London: Richard Pynson 1521.<br> <br> First edition. Small quarto 8 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 210 x 155 mm. 80 leaves. With the final two blank leaves. Final leaf of text is errata and colophon. Large woodcut initials. Title-page within a allegorical woodcut boarder signed HH for Hans Holbein. "The woodcut border on the title-page which depicts the story of C. Mucius Scaevola and King Porsenna McKerrow & Ferguson 8 was adapted from a design by Hans Holbein for the De immortalitate animae by Aeneas Gazaeus printed by Froben in Basel in 1516." Sotheby's.<br> <br> Probably remboitage binding of 17th-century vellum rebacked. The arms of Pope Urban VIII in gilt as central devices on front and back board. Boards double ruled in gilt and with gilt bees as corner devices. All edges gilt. Leaves very clean. Binding with staining and repairs to corners. Old ink manuscript on front board. Final blank leaf professionally repaired. Overall a very good copy.<br> <br> It was perhaps as early as 1516 that Cardinal Wolsey anxious to distract him from more worldly preoccupations first encouraged Henry VIlI to embark on a serious rejoinder to Luther 49. In so doing Wolsey wrought his own downfall and this was perhaps the least of the consequences of 'The Assertion of the Seven Sacraments' one of the most fateful books in the history of western civilisation. Despite his unfeigned zeal to extirpate heresy it was not until Henry began to take a serious interest in foreign affairs that he realised the practical value which such a work might have if dedicated to the Pope. It is difficult to estimate the spiritual influence of the papacy at a time when the vast majority of Christendom saw It as a not specially powerful temporal state; but it was none the less felt. How much Henry's anxiety to complete the book between May and July 1521 was activated real if romantic desire to become the champion of the papacy it is hard to say. This point of view may be supported by Henry's statement to a startled and incredulous Thomas More 47 that 'from that See we received our crown imperial. More could see the dangers of so firm commitment to the temporal if not to the spiritual power of the papacy and his misgivings were soon to be justified a hundredfold. Henry gained the recognition he sought from Leo X the title of Fidei Defensor. But had he not made so absolute an admission of papal authority it is unlikely that he would have felt so personally slighted by the Pope's refusal to give him his way in his 'great matter' the divorce from Catherine of Aragon; unlikely that he would have turned with such vehemence on almost all the advisers. More among them who had made his reign so successful hitherto; unlikely that he would have claimed the royal supremacy in the Church; unlikely- but there speculation must stop. Suffice it to say that the publication of the Assertio must be considered to mark a critical moment in the history of the English Reformation." PMM 50.<br> <br> ESTC S123359. PMM 50. STC 13078.<br> <br> HBS 68857.<br> <br> $27500. Richard Pynson unknown
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
1574ST19871Heidelberg: Imprinted by Michael Schirat 1574. First Edition in English. 194 x 151 mm. 6 5/8 x 6". 6 p.l. last blank 193 pp. 2 leaves final blank. <br/> Very nice late 19th century dark maroon morocco by Lloyd of London stamp-signed on front turn-in covers framed by gilt and blind rules blind ruling at corners raised bands spine panels with blind-stamped quatrefoil gilt lettering gilt-ruled turn-ins quatrefoil cornerpieces all edges gilt. Lacking the folding "Table of Discipline" called for in ESTC. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Albert Ehrman; rear pastedown with Ehrman's faded ink stamp bookplate of "Bibliotheca Broxbourniana / J. P. W. E. / 17 March 1949 / ex dono A. & R. E." STC 24184; ESTC S118505; USTC 507892. Text washed and pressed but except for the first and last few leaves without the typical resultant darkening and fading otherwise an extremely attractive copy still fresh the margins especially wide and the binding lustrous and scarcely worn.<br/> <br/> First issued in Latin in the same year as our edition this is the major work of English puritan Walter Travers 1548 - 1625 applying the Calvinist presbyterian system of ecclesiastical government to the episcopal Church of England. According to DNB for Calvin and Travers alike "the duty of the theologian was merely to identify the church's structure and apply it to contemporary circumstances. It was in this last respect that Travers's originality lay for he subtly adapted Calvin's biblical model to an English context. In order to undermine the diocesan episcopate of the English church Travers started off with an examination of the role of bishops in the New Testament showing that they were not part of a separate hierarchy with authority over other clergy but merely ministers of local congregations. He also differed from Calvin in identifying elders as a type of deacon rather than a separate kind of minister." Our book was written during Travers' 1570-76 sojourn in Geneva where he became a friend of Calvin's successor Theodore Beza. Afterwards he ministered to English merchant marines in Antwerp where he refused to use the Book of Common Prayer for worship. Despite this when Travers returned to England he became chaplain to Elizabeth's chief minister William Cecil and tutor to his son. As DNB notes "his close ties to influential courtiers of a Calvinist inclination" would be key to Travers' career keeping him out of serious trouble despite his strongly presbyterian views. Our volume has a distinguished provenance coming from the celebrated Broxbourne library of Albert Ehrman 1890-1969 a diamond merchant who gathered a fine collection of books at his home at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire. He spent half a century collecting books specializing in incunabula and early bindings as well as early type specimens and bibliographies. Feather says that "his collecting was intelligent and scholarly for he sought to illustrate the history of printing and the book trade and the early development of trade binding." Ehrman also authored learned articles on fine bindings and the history of printing. The present work is uncommon: we could trace just five copies at auction since 1979; only the 1979 copy contained the folding "Table" and that one was noted as "slightly defective and mounted on linen.". Imprinted [by Michael Schirat] unknown
160016972Venedig, Valegio, um 1600. Ca. 8,5 cm x 13 cm.
