BARLOW, William (fl. 1527). A proper dyalogue, betwene a gentillman and a husbandman eche complaynynge to other their miserable calamite through the ambicion of clergye . - A compendious old treatyse, shewing, howe that we ought to have the Scripture in Englysshe . Reproduced in Facsimile with an introduction by Francis Fry. London: Willis and Sotheran, and Bristol: Lasbury, 1863. PRINTED ON VELLUM. 8° (193 x 127mm). 2 ll. of advertisements for Fry's reproductions in facsimile at end. Wood-engraving of Coltham Tower on title verso. Contemporary roan-backed green pasteboard, title lettered in gilt along spine (slightly scuffed). Provenance : Wilfred Merton (1889-1957, bookplate dated 1921). ONE OF ONLY SIX VELLUM COPIES OF FRY'S REPRINT OF THE UNIQUE COPY OF THIS LOLLARD WORK (STC 1462.5), surreptitiously printed at Antwerp by J. Hoochstraten in 1530. The second part, A compendious treatyse , is a revision of an English redaction by an unidentifiable Lollard of a Latin text composed by Richard Ullerston (cf. Anne Hudson, 'The Debate on Bible Translation, Oxford 1401', English Historical Review , 90, 1975, pp.1-18). In the advertisement at the end, copies of the Proper Dyaloge are offered at 10 shillings for an ordinary copy, £1 for a copy on old paper and 'a few copies on Vellum, for which Special application should be made'. A pencilled note at the front states that only six vellum copies were printed.
BARLOW, William (fl. 1527). A proper dyalogue, betwene a gentillman and a husbandman eche complaynynge to other their miserable calamite through the ambicion of clergye . - A compendious old treatyse, shewing, howe that we ought to have the Scripture in Englysshe . Reproduced in Facsimile with an introduction by Francis Fry. London: Willis and Sotheran, and Bristol: Lasbury, 1863. PRINTED ON VELLUM. 8° (193 x 127mm). 2 ll. of advertisements for Fry's reproductions in facsimile at end. Wood-engraving of Coltham Tower on title verso. Contemporary roan-backed green pasteboard, title lettered in gilt along spine (slightly scuffed). Provenance : Wilfred Merton (1889-1957, bookplate dated 1921). ONE OF ONLY SIX VELLUM COPIES OF FRY'S REPRINT OF THE UNIQUE COPY OF THIS LOLLARD WORK (STC 1462.5), surreptitiously printed at Antwerp by J. Hoochstraten in 1530. The second part, A compendious treatyse , is a revision of an English redaction by an unidentifiable Lollard of a Latin text composed by Richard Ullerston (cf. Anne Hudson, 'The Debate on Bible Translation, Oxford 1401', English Historical Review , 90, 1975, pp.1-18). In the advertisement at the end, copies of the Proper Dyaloge are offered at 10 shillings for an ordinary copy, £1 for a copy on old paper and 'a few copies on Vellum, for which Special application should be made'. A pencilled note at the front states that only six vellum copies were printed.
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