[PARKER, Matthew (1504-75), archbishop] -- The life off the 70. Archbishop of Canterbury presentlye Sittinge Englished and to be added to the 69. lately Sett forth in Latin. Translated by John Stubbs? [Zurich: Christopher Froschauer?], 1574

Details
[PARKER, Matthew (1504-75), archbishop] -- The life off the 70. Archbishop of Canterbury presentlye Sittinge Englished and to be added to the 69. lately Sett forth in Latin. Translated by John Stubbs? [Zurich: Christopher Froschauer?], 1574

Small 8° (127 x 83mm). Collation: A-G8 F4, large printed folding table. (Small hole in title, not affecting letters, repaired.) 19th-century blue morocco by Beford, edges gilt. Provenance: Cardiff Castle bookplate.

ONLY EDITION; translated from the Latin text circulating in manuscript of 'Historiola' attributed to John Joscelyn, Latin secretary to Parker 1549-57, who contributed the 'Lives of the Archbishops' to Parker's De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae. STC 19292a

More from Book Collection

View All
View All