Lot 203
  • 203

Cartwright, Thomas

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • 'A Confutation of the Rhemists Translation, Glosses and Annotations on the New Testament, so farre as they containe Manifest Impieties, Heresies, Idolatries, Superstitions, Prophanesse, Treasons, Slanders, Absurdities, Falsehoods and other Evills'. [Leiden:] Printed [by W. Brewster], in the yeare 1618
  • ink,leather,paper
Folio (11 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.;262 x 187 mm). Woodcut printer's device of title-page, numerous woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, with terminal errata leaf 5O2; [chi]1 loose (between f4 and G1), title-page soiled and repaired at fore-edge, some worming at lower fore-edge corner occasionally affecting text or (more often) shoulder-notes, soiling and staining. Contemporary speckled calf; worn, spine defective.

Provenance

Acquisition: Evidently purchased from Alan G. Thomas, date unknown

Literature

Herbert 364; STC 4709; ESTC S107186; Harris, 'The Pilgrim Press' 16

Condition

Folio (11 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.;262 x 187 mm). Woodcut printer's device of title-page, numerous woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, with terminal errata leaf 5O2; [chi]1 loose (between f4 and G1), title-page soiled and repaired at fore-edge, some worming at lower fore-edge corner occasionally affecting text or (more often) shoulder-notes, soiling and staining. Contemporary speckled calf; worn, spine defective.
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Catalogue Note

First edition of Cartwright's refutation of the 1582 Rheims Catholic New Testament, one of the most significant productions of Brewster's clandestine Pilgrim press in Leiden. Two years after printing this work, Brewster embarked for the New World aboard the Mayflower. Cartwright's refutation includes the full text of the Rheims New Testament through the end of Matthew, and selected passages thereafter (hence its inclusion in Herbert).