*** Please note the description of this lot has changed *** Henry...
*** Please note the description of this lot has changed ***
Henry VIII's Primer.- Church of England. The Primer, set foorth by the Kynges maiestie and his clergie, to be taught lerned, & read: and none other to be vsed throughout all his dominions, collation: *4 A-I4 K4 L2 M-U4 2A-2H4, printed in red and black, title within woodcut ornamental border, divisional full-page woodcut at end (verso blank), near contemporary marginal ink marks to D4-E1 & K1, VVithin the precinct of the late dissolued house of the graye Friers by Richard Grafton Printer to the Princes grace, the xvii.day of August, the yeare of our lorde M,D.XLVI [1546], bound with An exposicyon after the maner of a contemplacion, vpon the Psalme called Miserere mei Deus whiche Hierome of Ferrary made, at the latter ende of hys dayes, collation: A-H4, small loss in text to A, printed without a separate title, by John Herforde, for Robert Toye, [?1542], bound with Here begynneth the Pistels and Gospels of the Sondayes and festiuall holy dayes, newly corrected and amended, collation: A-P4, printed without a separate title, small marginal loss to P4, manuscript note in an early hand on P4 verso, by John Herforde, [?1545], together 3 works in 1 vol., black letter, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, some criblé, bookplate of Peter Rivers, Bar. on front pastedown, occasional spotting and soiling, lightly browned, marginal worming to several pp., later mottled calf, stamped in blind and gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments, rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed, [STC 21794; 2973], 8vo (190 x 130mm.).
*** The first work is the first Primer in English, which was authorised by the king and prepared under his supervision.
Title: The Primer, set foorth by the Kynges maiestie and his clergie, to be taught lerned, & read: and none other to be vsed throughout all his dominion
Printer: VVithin the precinct of the late dissolued house of the graye Friers by Richard Grafton Printer to the Princes grace, the xvii.day of August, the yeare of our lorde M,D.XLVI
Interest: Henry VIII's Primer.- Church of England
Date of Publication: [1546]
Condition Report
*** Please note the description of this lot has changed ***
Henry VIII's Primer.- Church of England. The Primer, set foorth by the Kynges maiestie and his clergie, to be taught lerned, & read: and none other to be vsed throughout all his dominions, collation: *4 A-I4 K4 L2 M-U4 2A-2H4, printed in red and black, title within woodcut ornamental border, divisional full-page woodcut at end (verso blank), near contemporary marginal ink marks to D4-E1 & K1, VVithin the precinct of the late dissolued house of the graye Friers by Richard Grafton Printer to the Princes grace, the xvii.day of August, the yeare of our lorde M,D.XLVI [1546], bound with An exposicyon after the maner of a contemplacion, vpon the Psalme called Miserere mei Deus whiche Hierome of Ferrary made, at the latter ende of hys dayes, collation: A-H4, small loss in text to A, printed without a separate title, by John Herforde, for Robert Toye, [?1542], bound with Here begynneth the Pistels and Gospels of the Sondayes and festiuall holy dayes, newly corrected and amended, collation: A-P4, printed without a separate title, small marginal loss to P4, manuscript note in an early hand on P4 verso, by John Herforde, [?1545], together 3 works in 1 vol., black letter, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, some criblé, bookplate of Peter Rivers, Bar. on front pastedown, occasional spotting and soiling, lightly browned, marginal worming to several pp., later mottled calf, stamped in blind and gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments, rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed, [STC 21794; 2973], 8vo (190 x 130mm.).
*** The first work is the first Primer in English, which was authorised by the king and prepared under his supervision.
Title: The Primer, set foorth by the Kynges maiestie and his clergie, to be taught lerned, & read: and none other to be vsed throughout all his dominion
Printer: VVithin the precinct of the late dissolued house of the graye Friers by Richard Grafton Printer to the Princes grace, the xvii.day of August, the yeare of our lorde M,D.XLVI
Interest: Henry VIII's Primer.- Church of England
Date of Publication: [1546]
Condition Report
