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PRIMER, use of Sarum, in Latin and English. This prymer of Salisbury use is se tout a long withhoutonyser chying With many prayers & goodly pyctures in the Kalender in the matins of our lady in the houres of the crosse in the vii. psalmes. and in the dryryge. And be newly emprynted at Rouen. Rouen: Robert Valentinum, 1554.
8o (160 x 100 mm). Collation: A-S8 T4. 148 leaves. Black letter, printed with red capitals and headings. Printer's large woodcut device on title-page and T4v; 29 large woodcuts, numerous smaller woodcuts and woodcut initials. (Title soiled slightly and with a few small repairs, occasional marginal soiling or minor repairs.) 19th-century brown morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere.
Provenance: Thomas Newton (ca 1542-1607), poet, physician, and divine of Trinity College, Oxford, and Queen's College, Cambridge who published works on historical, medical and theological subjects, and translated from Latin and wrote Latin and English verse (signature on title) OR (1704-1782), bishop of Bristol who became dean of St. Paul's in 1768 and wrote on various theological subjects -- John Howard (name and arms drawn on first flyleaf, dated 1792) -- Thomas Barritt (1743-1820), presumably the anitquary who worked in Manchester (inscription on flyleaf "given to me Tho:. Barritt March 1801 the month Mr. Howard died") -- Henry Huth (bookplate, sale) -- Beverly Chew (bookplate, sale, part I, 9 December 1924, lot 368 -- purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach by Mrs. Doheny 2 January 1943 -- donated to SMS 1943.
EXCESSIVELY RARE SALISBURY PRIMER. STC locates only four copies (two of which are imperfect), this copy being THE ONLY COPY RECORDED IN AMERICA. STC 16058.
8o (160 x 100 mm). Collation: A-S8 T4. 148 leaves. Black letter, printed with red capitals and headings. Printer's large woodcut device on title-page and T4v; 29 large woodcuts, numerous smaller woodcuts and woodcut initials. (Title soiled slightly and with a few small repairs, occasional marginal soiling or minor repairs.) 19th-century brown morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere.
Provenance: Thomas Newton (ca 1542-1607), poet, physician, and divine of Trinity College, Oxford, and Queen's College, Cambridge who published works on historical, medical and theological subjects, and translated from Latin and wrote Latin and English verse (signature on title) OR (1704-1782), bishop of Bristol who became dean of St. Paul's in 1768 and wrote on various theological subjects -- John Howard (name and arms drawn on first flyleaf, dated 1792) -- Thomas Barritt (1743-1820), presumably the anitquary who worked in Manchester (inscription on flyleaf "given to me Tho:. Barritt March 1801 the month Mr. Howard died") -- Henry Huth (bookplate, sale) -- Beverly Chew (bookplate, sale, part I, 9 December 1924, lot 368 -- purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach by Mrs. Doheny 2 January 1943 -- donated to SMS 1943.
EXCESSIVELY RARE SALISBURY PRIMER. STC locates only four copies (two of which are imperfect), this copy being THE ONLY COPY RECORDED IN AMERICA. STC 16058.