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Accession number
PML 17491
Creator
Whitford, Richard, active 1495-1555?
Published
London : Robert Redman, 1532.
Credit line
Purchased in 1910.
Notes
Colophon: Imprynted at London ... by me Robert Redman ... In the yere of our lorde god a thousande fyue hondred and .xxxii. The .xxiii. day of Marche ...
Caption-title: A worke of the thre vowes of religion ... by ... Richarde Whyforde.
"Vnto the deuoute readers" signed: Richarde Whytforde.
Printer's device on verso of last leaf.
Text in Gothic type.
Title vignette; initials and tailpieces throughout.
Signatures: A⁴ B-X⁴/⁸, 2A-2Q⁴/⁸ 2R⁶.
Description
[1], ii-lxxvi, lxxvi-C.xxxviii, C.xl-C.lix, C.lxx-C.lxxxv, C.lxxxix-CC.vii, CC.vii-CC.xxxvii, [1] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 20 x 14 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
16th- and 17th-century English and Latin marginal notations in at least two different hands.
Provenance
John Tohwill, signature, 16th century (leaf 2R6v); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
Binding
17th-century Oxford reversed calf over pastepaper boards, sewn on 4 supports, with printer's waste as front and rear pastedowns from Disputationum Roberti Bellarmini Politiani cardinalis (Paris: Buon, 1603), leaves X2.7 and X4.5. 2 ties, wanting; former chained binding.
Classification
Department