Accession number
PML 16410.2
Creator
Sternhold, Thomas, -1549.
Published
Geneva : John Crespin, 1556.
Notes
Among the other contributors were William Whittingham, Thomas Norton, William Kethe, Robert Wisdome, John Pullain, Thomas Bastard, John Marckant.
"The catechisme or manner to teache children the Christian religion", a translation of "Catéchisme de l'Église de Genève" by John Calvin, has separate dated title page, register, and pagination.
Page 69 is numbered 99, and the no. on p. 73 did not print.
PML copy with Catechisme catalogued separately.
"The catechisme or manner to teache children the Christian religion", a translation of "Catéchisme de l'Église de Genève" by John Calvin, has separate dated title page, register, and pagination.
Page 69 is numbered 99, and the no. on p. 73 did not print.
PML copy with Catechisme catalogued separately.
Description
[2], 159, [1] p. : music ; 13 cm
Provenance
Rev. William Makellar, his sale, Sotheby's, 7 Nov. 1898; William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst (1835-1909), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's London, 3 Dec. 1908, lot 737 (to Quaritch?); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Quaritch, Dec. 1909.
Binding
Purple velvet, with clasps; in maroon morocco solander case.
Classification
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