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Assertionis Lutheranae confutatio. Paris: C. Chevallon, 1523.
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FISHER, John, St. (1459-1535)
Assertionis Lutheranae confutatio. Paris: C. Chevallon, 1523.
Rare early edition of Fisher's refutation of Luther's reply to Henry VIII's Assertio, first published at Antwerp in the same year. Fisher, who became chancellor of Cambridge university and bishop of Rochester in 1504, published three treatises against Luther in the 1520s, in the same period that he brought Erasmus to Cambridge. Imprisoned with Thomas More for refusing to swear to the Act of Succession, he was beheaded just two weeks before him on 22 June 1535, after failing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the church.
Quarto (235 x 170mm). Title in red and black within woodcut border, woodcut device of B. Rembolt to title and C. Chevallon on colophon, woodcut initials (small wormtrack touching text in last few quires). Modern morocco ruled in gilt and blind. Provenance: 16th-century inscription on title – a few later marginal annotations – John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute (1847–1900; bookplate).
Assertionis Lutheranae confutatio. Paris: C. Chevallon, 1523.
Rare early edition of Fisher's refutation of Luther's reply to Henry VIII's Assertio, first published at Antwerp in the same year. Fisher, who became chancellor of Cambridge university and bishop of Rochester in 1504, published three treatises against Luther in the 1520s, in the same period that he brought Erasmus to Cambridge. Imprisoned with Thomas More for refusing to swear to the Act of Succession, he was beheaded just two weeks before him on 22 June 1535, after failing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the church.
Quarto (235 x 170mm). Title in red and black within woodcut border, woodcut device of B. Rembolt to title and C. Chevallon on colophon, woodcut initials (small wormtrack touching text in last few quires). Modern morocco ruled in gilt and blind. Provenance: 16th-century inscription on title – a few later marginal annotations – John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute (1847–1900; bookplate).
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