Accession number
PML 16035
Published
Excusum Londini : In officina Thomae Gaultier pro I.C., [30 Nov. 1550]
Notes
Date in title page imprint reads: Pridie Kalendas Decembris anno Domini M.D.L.
Fourth edition of Tyndale's English version with the translation of Erasmus in Latin.
The initials I.C. (i.e. J.C.) in the preface may indicate John Cawood, the London printer who was editor and publisher rather than Sir John Cheke (cf. Darlow & Moule 58).
Title printed in red and black within McKerrow & Ferguson border no. 60B containing McKerrow device 108a, Edward Whitchurch's monogram which may indicate he had some rights over the book.
With the two cancelled duplicate leaves C⁷ and C⁸ in the Latin text of Matthew XXI-XXII.
Fourth edition of Tyndale's English version with the translation of Erasmus in Latin.
The initials I.C. (i.e. J.C.) in the preface may indicate John Cawood, the London printer who was editor and publisher rather than Sir John Cheke (cf. Darlow & Moule 58).
Title printed in red and black within McKerrow & Ferguson border no. 60B containing McKerrow device 108a, Edward Whitchurch's monogram which may indicate he had some rights over the book.
With the two cancelled duplicate leaves C⁷ and C⁸ in the Latin text of Matthew XXI-XXII.
Description
264 leaves ; 18 cm
Provenance
In contemporary hands on the title page: Sum Liber Thoma powle, John powle, Jane powle, Gilbert de Man...? and Samuell repeated on verso of preface; John and Thomas Powle at foot of I¹b, the last blank is covered with Biblical notes in a contemporary hand. The autograph presentation copy dated 1836 from Mr. J.H. Montagu Luxmoore to George Offor (his sale, 27 June, 1865, lot 11). With the shelfmark 8D in red of the Ashburnham Library (Sale 1898, III, no. 3661).
Binding
Dark blue morocco.
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