Accession number
PML 5812
Creator
Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568.
Published
At London : Printed by Iohn Daye ..., [1573]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Signatures: [pointing finger]², B-T⁴; A is omitted.
Title-page date, 1571, is incorrect as demonstrated by reset pages and colophon dated 1573.
Printer's mark on last page (with skeleton). Title within ornamental border; initials; tail-pieces.
Colophon: At London. Printed by Iohn Daye. dwelling ouer Aldersgate. 1573.
Colophon leaf inserted in 1963 from PML 5812.
Edited by author's wife, Margaret (Howe) Ascham; "preface" to Sir William Cecil.
Title-page date, 1571, is incorrect as demonstrated by reset pages and colophon dated 1573.
Printer's mark on last page (with skeleton). Title within ornamental border; initials; tail-pieces.
Colophon: At London. Printed by Iohn Daye. dwelling ouer Aldersgate. 1573.
Colophon leaf inserted in 1963 from PML 5812.
Edited by author's wife, Margaret (Howe) Ascham; "preface" to Sir William Cecil.
Description
[6], 66 [i.e. 67], [1] leaves ; 19 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Extensive underlining and manicules throughout. Marginal sketch of St. George fighting the dragon (?) on M4 (pg.40).
Provenance
E.G. Asay (signature dated Dec. 1881); Theodore Irwin.
Binding
Half green morroco binding by C.M. Ullman, 1963.
Classification
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