Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 18
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Ascham, Roger

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Ascham, Roger
  • Apologia doctissimi viri Rogeri Aschami, Angli, pro cæna Dominica, contra Missam & eius prestigias: in Academia olim Cantabrigiensi exercitationis gratia inchoata. Londini : Pro Francisco Coldocko, An. 1577.
  • printed book
12mo (5 1/2 x 3 1/4 ins.; 142 x 92 mm).  The first leaf is blank but for the signature mark and this copy, as in most, has the imprint date hand-corrected to 1578; worming in lower margin, but well below text. Eighteenth-century calf; joints repaired.

Provenance

acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 1996

Literature

STC 825; ESTC S100257 

Catalogue Note

First edition. A rare anticlerical tract by Ascham, whose role in the Protestant Reformation has recently received more scholarly attention.