- 809
Turner, William
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description
- Joseph Mallord William Turner
- The huntyng and finding out of the romish foxe
- vellum
scribal manuscript copied from an exemplar of the 1543 printed edition, c.110 pages, 8vo (132 x 96 mm), seventeenth-century. Modern limp vellum gilt by Rivière, gilt edges.
Provenance
"William Battell His Book 1709" (inscription on front free endpapers) -- "ex Britwell [i.e. Britwell Court Library, Buckinghamshire]" (pencil note in Pirie's hand). acquisition: Maggs, 1967
Catalogue Note
A careful hand-written reproduction of a rare copy of William Turner's Henrician polemic aimed at Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester.