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HEYWOOD, John (c.1497-1580). The Spider and the Flie. A Parable of the Spider and the Flie. London: Tho. Powell, 1556.
Small 4° (190 x 135mm). Collation: A-C4 A-Z4 Aa4 (with additional 3 sheets) Bb6 Cc4 (with additional 2 sheets) Dd4 (with additional sheet and half sheet) Ee4 (with additional 3 half sheets and a full sheet signed C+ repeated) Ff4 (with additional 2 sheets) Gg4 (with additional sheet) Hh-Ss4. Title within woodcut border [McKerrow & Ferguson 50], full-page woodcut portrait of the author repeated, 98 large allegorical woodcuts, including 24 double page, (with a number of repeats), woodcut head and tailpieces throughout. (Tear in C+2 repaired without loss of text). Late 19th-century blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, with the covers of the original binding mounted as doublures. These are of a French late 16th-century brown morocco binding with black inlaid panels, decorated in a mixture of duodo and centre- and corner-piece styles, with an overall decoration of gilt sprays and floral surrounds. The initials 'E.T.' are in the centre of both covers. Some of these tools appear to have been used in a binding described in the catalogue Fine Bindings from Oxford Libraries (1968) no.100 (plate 22).
PROVENANCE: Unidentified initials E.T. on original binding as described above. Sold at Sotheby's 11 December 1903 (¨61 Sabin), then F.R.Halsey; H.E.Huntington, 1917; J.L.Clawson, catalogue 361; S.P.Terry, booklabel, sold at Anderson Galleries N.Y., 4 Dec. 1935; A.A.Houghton, booklabel, sold Christie's 14 June 1979 lot 260.
FIRST EDITION. STC 13308; Pforzheimer 469; Grolier,Langland to Wither 137. The poem and the woodcuts illustrate a parable to defend the position of the Roman Catholic party in the reign of Queen Mary. The flies represent the Catholics, the spiders the Protestants
Small 4° (190 x 135mm). Collation: A-C4 A-Z4 Aa4 (with additional 3 sheets) Bb6 Cc4 (with additional 2 sheets) Dd4 (with additional sheet and half sheet) Ee4 (with additional 3 half sheets and a full sheet signed C+ repeated) Ff4 (with additional 2 sheets) Gg4 (with additional sheet) Hh-Ss4. Title within woodcut border [McKerrow & Ferguson 50], full-page woodcut portrait of the author repeated, 98 large allegorical woodcuts, including 24 double page, (with a number of repeats), woodcut head and tailpieces throughout. (Tear in C+2 repaired without loss of text). Late 19th-century blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, with the covers of the original binding mounted as doublures. These are of a French late 16th-century brown morocco binding with black inlaid panels, decorated in a mixture of duodo and centre- and corner-piece styles, with an overall decoration of gilt sprays and floral surrounds. The initials 'E.T.' are in the centre of both covers. Some of these tools appear to have been used in a binding described in the catalogue Fine Bindings from Oxford Libraries (1968) no.100 (plate 22).
PROVENANCE: Unidentified initials E.T. on original binding as described above. Sold at Sotheby's 11 December 1903 (¨61 Sabin), then F.R.Halsey; H.E.Huntington, 1917; J.L.Clawson, catalogue 361; S.P.Terry, booklabel, sold at Anderson Galleries N.Y., 4 Dec. 1935; A.A.Houghton, booklabel, sold Christie's 14 June 1979 lot 260.
FIRST EDITION. STC 13308; Pforzheimer 469; Grolier,Langland to Wither 137. The poem and the woodcuts illustrate a parable to defend the position of the Roman Catholic party in the reign of Queen Mary. The flies represent the Catholics, the spiders the Protestants