Accession number
PML 5007
Creator
Bonde, William, active 1526-1527.
Published
Imprinted at London : in Fletestreete, besyde saynt Dunstans churche, by Richarde Pynson, pri[n]ter to the kynges noble grace, Anno domini. 1526.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Notes
Anonymous. By William Bonde.
Title page: Here begynneth a devout treatyse in Englysshe called the Pylgrimage of perfection: very p[ro]fitable for all christen people to rede: and in especiall to all relygious p[er]sons moche necessary."
Imprint from colophon: Thus endeth the seuenth and last day of the pylgrimate of perfection. Imprinted at London in Fletestreete, besyde saynt Dunstans churche, by Richarde Pynson, pri[n]ter to the kynges noble grace. [C]um priuilegio. Anno domini. 1526.
Signatures: A⁶ (table of the first and second book); a⁴ (starre of grace) ²a⁸ (tree of vyce); [Maltese cross]² (tree of grace); ²A-E⁴/⁸ F⁶, G-T⁴/⁸ (prologue, first and second book); AA⁶, ²AA-RR⁴/⁸ (third book, first to third days); AAA⁴ BBB⁶ (table of the third book, fourth to sixth days), ²AAA-ZZZ⁴/⁸ ³a-c⁸/⁴ (third book, fourth to sixth days); ³a⁴ (table of the third book, seventh day) d-h⁴/⁸ i⁶ (third book, seventh day); ³A-D⁴/⁶ (Rosary of our Savyour Jesu). Leaf ³a2 signed d2.
Woodcut illustrations with border panels on title page; printer's mark on verso of last leaf. Small woodcut of St. Bridget (not in Hodnet, reduced version of Hodnet, no. 457) with floral border with initials "E G" for Elizabeth Gibbs, abbess of Syon (1497-1518).
Morgan copy missing Rosary of our Savyour Jesu (quires ³A-D).
Morgan copy bound out of order: table of the first and second book; starre of grace; tree of grace; prologue and first and second book; table of the third book, first to third day; table of the third book, fourth to sixth day; table of the third book, seventh day (copy 1, leaves ³a1-4); tree of vyce; third book, first to third day; third book, fourth to sixth day; table of the third book, seventh day (copy 2, leaves ³a2-4).
Morgan copy with duplicate of leaves ³a2-4 bound in place; complete quire ³a1-4 bound after leaf BBB6.
Title page: Here begynneth a devout treatyse in Englysshe called the Pylgrimage of perfection: very p[ro]fitable for all christen people to rede: and in especiall to all relygious p[er]sons moche necessary."
Imprint from colophon: Thus endeth the seuenth and last day of the pylgrimate of perfection. Imprinted at London in Fletestreete, besyde saynt Dunstans churche, by Richarde Pynson, pri[n]ter to the kynges noble grace. [C]um priuilegio. Anno domini. 1526.
Signatures: A⁶ (table of the first and second book); a⁴ (starre of grace) ²a⁸ (tree of vyce); [Maltese cross]² (tree of grace); ²A-E⁴/⁸ F⁶, G-T⁴/⁸ (prologue, first and second book); AA⁶, ²AA-RR⁴/⁸ (third book, first to third days); AAA⁴ BBB⁶ (table of the third book, fourth to sixth days), ²AAA-ZZZ⁴/⁸ ³a-c⁸/⁴ (third book, fourth to sixth days); ³a⁴ (table of the third book, seventh day) d-h⁴/⁸ i⁶ (third book, seventh day); ³A-D⁴/⁶ (Rosary of our Savyour Jesu). Leaf ³a2 signed d2.
Woodcut illustrations with border panels on title page; printer's mark on verso of last leaf. Small woodcut of St. Bridget (not in Hodnet, reduced version of Hodnet, no. 457) with floral border with initials "E G" for Elizabeth Gibbs, abbess of Syon (1497-1518).
Morgan copy missing Rosary of our Savyour Jesu (quires ³A-D).
Morgan copy bound out of order: table of the first and second book; starre of grace; tree of grace; prologue and first and second book; table of the third book, first to third day; table of the third book, fourth to sixth day; table of the third book, seventh day (copy 1, leaves ³a1-4); tree of vyce; third book, first to third day; third book, fourth to sixth day; table of the third book, seventh day (copy 2, leaves ³a2-4).
Morgan copy with duplicate of leaves ³a2-4 bound in place; complete quire ³a1-4 bound after leaf BBB6.
Description
[12]; lxxvi, lxxvi-Cix, [6], C, [10], C.lvii [i.e. 156], [4], clviii-C.xc, [1]; [1], xix leaves ; illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
A few marginal annotations and corrections, primarily in the third book (days six and seven).
Provenance
Henry VIII, signature (leaf i6r), given to (or perhaps from Edward VI?): Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, with inscription: "from my Royale Maistere. P. Somerset" (leaf i6r); Mary Tudor, inscription: "Marye the quene. ave Maria" (leaf AA1v, below woodcut); Thorpe, General Catalogue (1844), likely bought by Russel; John Fuller Russel (1814-1884), signature and armorial booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 26 June 1885 for £200; Bernard Quaritch, cat. 159 (May-June 1896), no. 456 for £125, and repeated in: Monuments of Typography and Xylography (1897), no. 577 for £105; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., June 1901.
Binding
19th-century Englisn brown morocco by Clarke & Bedford.
Classification
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