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Cooke, Alexander
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 USD
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Description
- Pope Joane. A Dialogue betweene a Protestant and a Papist. Manifestly Proving, That a Woman Called Joan Was Pope of Rome: Against the Surmises and Objections Made to the Contrarie. London: Printed [by R. Field] for Ed. Blunt and W. Barret, 1610
- paper, ink, leather
4to (6 ¾ x 5 in.; 172 x 127 mm). Printer’s woodcut device on title-page (McKerrow 164); title-page apparently washed and pressed, light, occasional paper discoloration, long tear affecting 14 lines of text on final leaf neatly repaired, a few page number shaved or cropped. Crushed green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt-ruled turn-ins spine lettered and ruled in gilt.
Provenance
Sir Thomas Phillipps (Bibliotheca Phillippica ticket on front pastedown)
Literature
STC 5659; ESTC 108622
Catalogue Note
First edition of this tract about the legendary Joan, the only woman believed to have been Pope around 850.