ASCHAM, ROGER. The Scholemaster, Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to understand, write, and speake, the Latin tong. London: John Daye 1570. 4to, nineteenth-century gilt-panelled calf, edges stained yellow, rebacked, title and colophon leaves laid down on heavy paper with loss to 3 letters of colophon, small repairs to first 2 leaves affecting the title border and the first line of the dedication on 2nd leaf, repair to margins of R1 with loss to headline (and a side-note?), the last 3 leaves with large marginal repairs touching the text, rust-hole to E4 with loss to a side-note, repaired tear to H2 affecting 6 lines of text. FIRST EDITION, mostly black letter, title within typographical border, 14-line and smaller woodcut initials, the first historiated, woodcut printer's device at end. STC 832; Pforzheimer 15; Printing and the Mind of Man 90; Grolier, Langland to Wither 7. (Milne).

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ASCHAM, ROGER. The Scholemaster, Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to understand, write, and speake, the Latin tong. London: John Daye 1570. 4to, nineteenth-century gilt-panelled calf, edges stained yellow, rebacked, title and colophon leaves laid down on heavy paper with loss to 3 letters of colophon, small repairs to first 2 leaves affecting the title border and the first line of the dedication on 2nd leaf, repair to margins of R1 with loss to headline (and a side-note?), the last 3 leaves with large marginal repairs touching the text, rust-hole to E4 with loss to a side-note, repaired tear to H2 affecting 6 lines of text. FIRST EDITION, mostly black letter, title within typographical border, 14-line and smaller woodcut initials, the first historiated, woodcut printer's device at end. STC 832; Pforzheimer 15; Printing and the Mind of Man 90; Grolier, Langland to Wither 7. (Milne).