"The Huguenot Pope".- Mornay (Phillippe de) A Woorke
"The Huguenot Pope".- Mornay (Phillippe de) A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion...Against Atheists, Epicures, Paynims, Jewes, Mahumetists, and other Infidels, first edition, translated by Sir Philip Sidney and Arthur Golding, title within woodcut border, largely printed in black letter, woodcut decorations and initials, trimmed close at upper edge, slightly affecting headlines towards end, browned, particularly to margins, some water-staining, later tree calf over wooden boards, head of spine repaired, upper joint cracking, [STC 18149], 4to in 8s, Imprinted...by [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, 1587.
⁂ Sir Philip Sidney's first published work. He began the translation before his fatal expedition to the Low Countries. Mornay (1549-1623) studied law and jurisprudence at the University of Heidelberg in 1565 and the following year Hebrew and German at the University of Padua. He escaped the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and became Henry of Navarre's de-facto right-hand man, gaining great political influence and being dubbed 'the Huguenot Pope'. In about 1592 he was sent on a mission to the court of Queen Elizabeth in England where he and his wife befriended English Protestants such as Francis Walsingham, Mary Sidney, and her brother Philip.
Provenance: E. Backshell junior (ink name dated 1713 within typographic border); L. Namey (ink name dated 1809 on title); Schmidtchen (bookplate with booksellers' catalogue descriptions pasted above and beneath on pastedown).
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"The Huguenot Pope".- Mornay (Phillippe de) A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion...Against Atheists, Epicures, Paynims, Jewes, Mahumetists, and other Infidels, first edition, translated by Sir Philip Sidney and Arthur Golding, title within woodcut border, largely printed in black letter, woodcut decorations and initials, trimmed close at upper edge, slightly affecting headlines towards end, browned, particularly to margins, some water-staining, later tree calf over wooden boards, head of spine repaired, upper joint cracking, [STC 18149], 4to in 8s, Imprinted...by [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, 1587.
⁂ Sir Philip Sidney's first published work. He began the translation before his fatal expedition to the Low Countries. Mornay (1549-1623) studied law and jurisprudence at the University of Heidelberg in 1565 and the following year Hebrew and German at the University of Padua. He escaped the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and became Henry of Navarre's de-facto right-hand man, gaining great political influence and being dubbed 'the Huguenot Pope'. In about 1592 he was sent on a mission to the court of Queen Elizabeth in England where he and his wife befriended English Protestants such as Francis Walsingham, Mary Sidney, and her brother Philip.
Provenance: E. Backshell junior (ink name dated 1713 within typographic border); L. Namey (ink name dated 1809 on title); Schmidtchen (bookplate with booksellers' catalogue descriptions pasted above and beneath on pastedown).
