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

/

Lot 866
  • 866

Wright, Leonard

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Log in to view results
bidding is closed

Description

  • Wright, Leonard
  • The Pilgrimage to Paradise. Compiled for the direction, comfort, and resolution of Gods poore distressed children, in passing through this irkesome wildernesse of temptation and tryall. London: by Iohn Wolfe, and are to be solde at his shoppe against the broad south doore of Paules, 1591
  • printed book
4to (6 3/4 x 5 1/4 ins.; 176 x 132 mm). Black letter and roman, woodcut ornaments, initials and illustrations in text; some staining, extensive contemporary marginalia, chip from lower margin of one leaf and from the fore-margin of another, lacks initial blank. Nineteenth-century calf; rebacked.

Provenance

acquisition: Fleming

Literature

STC 26032; ESTC S102797

Catalogue Note

first edition. A rare work related to the Marprelate Controversy.