Accession number
PML 17535
Creator
More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.
Published
[London]: [Printed by William Rastell], Anno domini. M.v.C.xxx. mense Maii [May 1530].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Printer from STC.
Colophon reads "Anno domini. M.v.C.xxxi. [sic] mense Maii.". Variant: date altered to 1530 by the erasure of the "i".
Signatures: a-z⁶ A-C⁶ D⁴.
A reprint by William Rastell of the edition first published by John Rastell in 1529.--Cf. Ames, Typographical antiquities.
Colophon reads "Anno domini. M.v.C.xxxi. [sic] mense Maii.". Variant: date altered to 1530 by the erasure of the "i".
Signatures: a-z⁶ A-C⁶ D⁴.
A reprint by William Rastell of the edition first published by John Rastell in 1529.--Cf. Ames, Typographical antiquities.
Description
[6], cliii, [1] leaves ; (fol)
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary marginal annotations (in an English secretary hand), many trimmed at edges when volume rebound.
Provenance
From the library of John Ratcliffe (1707-1776), his sale 1776, lot 1012 (in his "very distinctive binding"), bought by Thane; John Bolton (1756-1837), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), perhaps his inscription "Perfect" (front endleaf) but not typical annotations or label; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Pearson, 1911.
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco (for John Ratcliffe); rebacked.
Classification
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