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Frith, John
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- A Boke Made by Johan Fryth, Prysoner in the Towr of London, Answering unto. M. Mores Letter, Which He Wrote against the Fyrst Lytle Treatyse that Johan Fryth Made Concerning the Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of Christ: unto Which Boke Are Added in the Ende the Artycles of His Examination before the Bysshoppes ... for whych John Frith Was Condemned … Newely Revised/Corrected and Printed. London: [Printed by Anthony Scoloker. and Wyllya[m] Seres, 1548]
- paper, ink, leather
8vo (5 x 3 in.;127 x 76 mm). Text in black letter, woodcut initials, edition statement from title-page, imprint from colophon (P5v), printer's device (McKerrow 113) on P6r; title-page soiled, quire A dog-eared in upper right corners, with minor losses, some side-notes shaved, dampstaining in quire N, N8v soiled and stained. Seventeenth-century calf, red morocco lettering piece, edges sprinkled red; leather on boards oxidized, spine sympathetically restored.
Provenance
E.T.M. Walker (label on front pastedown)
Literature
STC 11384; ESTC S102658
Catalogue Note
John Frith (1503-1533) was an evangelical scholar who was imprisoned for assisting Tyndale with the translation of the New Testament; he published his views on the Sacrament in response to criticisms of Thomas More, and was burnt at the stake Smithfield in 1533.