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BONNER, Edmund (1500-1569), bishop of London. A profitable and necessarye doctryne, with certayne homelies adioyned therunto set forth ... for the instruction and enformation of the people .... London: John Cawood, 17 September 1555. Collation: A-Z4 &4 Aa-Zz4 &&4 3A-3C4 s4; 3C<->4 cancelled. (First title re-hinged and tear skilfully repaired.) FIRST EDITION, second issue.
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Homelies sette forth, not onely promised before in his booke ... but also now of late adioyned. London: John Cawood, 1555. Collation: A-S4 T2. (Small rusthole in title; T<->1 re-hinged; small tear in colophon and outer margin of T<->2 skilfully repaired.) FIRST EDITION.
2 works in one volume, small 4° (174 x 130mm). Each with woodcut title-border [McKerrow & Ferguson 83]; 16 fine historiated woodcut initials signed 'A'. 19th-century brown morocco gilt by Pratt, edges gilt. Provenance: Cardiff Castle bookplate. STC 3282 and 3285.2
[Bound with:]
Homelies sette forth, not onely promised before in his booke ... but also now of late adioyned. London: John Cawood, 1555. Collation: A-S4 T2. (Small rusthole in title; T<->1 re-hinged; small tear in colophon and outer margin of T<->2 skilfully repaired.) FIRST EDITION.
2 works in one volume, small 4° (174 x 130mm). Each with woodcut title-border [McKerrow & Ferguson 83]; 16 fine historiated woodcut initials signed 'A'. 19th-century brown morocco gilt by Pratt, edges gilt. Provenance: Cardiff Castle bookplate. STC 3282 and 3285.2