?Family copy.- Bell (Thomas) The Anatomie of Popish
?Family copy.- Bell (Thomas) The Anatomie of Popish Tyrannie, first edition, title with woodcut head-piece and device, partially printed in black letter, lower margin of A3 torn away with loss of signature, early ink annotations and underlining, some water-staining and soiling, a few edges frayed, later half sheep, later Bell family arms on paper label pasted to upper cover, rubbed, [STC 1814], 4to, Printed by John Harison, for Richard Bankworth, 1603.
⁂ Bell was a Yorkshire clergyman who converted to Catholicism, was imprisoned in 1573, became a student at Douai and the English College at Rome, and when returning to England as a missionary priest, was again apprehended in 1592. This time he recanted and proceeded to become one of the most prolific and persuasive of the anti-Catholic writers, earning pensions from both Elizabeth and James I.
This copy with many early annotations including an inscription on the title: "Ignorance saith ye papist is mother of devotion, when truly it makes a murther of devotion" and another on verso of A4 entitled "The Jesuits Downfall". It also bears the 18th century bookplate of a Thomas Bell, which together with the later arms on the cover, suggest this may have been a family copy.
No copies traced at auction.
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?Family copy.- Bell (Thomas) The Anatomie of Popish Tyrannie, first edition, title with woodcut head-piece and device, partially printed in black letter, lower margin of A3 torn away with loss of signature, early ink annotations and underlining, some water-staining and soiling, a few edges frayed, later half sheep, later Bell family arms on paper label pasted to upper cover, rubbed, [STC 1814], 4to, Printed by John Harison, for Richard Bankworth, 1603.
⁂ Bell was a Yorkshire clergyman who converted to Catholicism, was imprisoned in 1573, became a student at Douai and the English College at Rome, and when returning to England as a missionary priest, was again apprehended in 1592. This time he recanted and proceeded to become one of the most prolific and persuasive of the anti-Catholic writers, earning pensions from both Elizabeth and James I.
This copy with many early annotations including an inscription on the title: "Ignorance saith ye papist is mother of devotion, when truly it makes a murther of devotion" and another on verso of A4 entitled "The Jesuits Downfall". It also bears the 18th century bookplate of a Thomas Bell, which together with the later arms on the cover, suggest this may have been a family copy.
No copies traced at auction.
