Accession number
PML 5811
Creator
Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568.
Published
At London : Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate. [ca. 1570]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Signatures: A-I⁴.
Prefatory letter, "John Astely to Roger Ascham" dated Hatfield, 29 October 1552 [ff. 2-2v].
Watermark (glove surmounted by five-pointed star) similar to PML 30291 (Ascham's Scholemaster, 1570), substantiating date; not Irwin's 1573.
Colophon leaf of 1573 with Day's printer's mark, previously bound in opposite t.p., removed in 1963 and inserted in PML 5812 (Scholemaster).
Binding title: Discourse on Germany.
Prefatory letter, "John Astely to Roger Ascham" dated Hatfield, 29 October 1552 [ff. 2-2v].
Watermark (glove surmounted by five-pointed star) similar to PML 30291 (Ascham's Scholemaster, 1570), substantiating date; not Irwin's 1573.
Colophon leaf of 1573 with Day's printer's mark, previously bound in opposite t.p., removed in 1963 and inserted in PML 5812 (Scholemaster).
Binding title: Discourse on Germany.
Description
[3], 33 leaves ; 19 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Occasional passages underlined.
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Half green morocco binding by C.M. Ullman, 1963.
Classification
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