Only known copy of one of the earliest substantial Elizabethan prayer books.- [Bull (Henry)] [Christian Praiers and Holy Meditations], black letter, calendar and errata printed in red and black, text within double filet borders, woodcut decorative initials, lacking all but 1 leaf before A1 (including title), N1, 7&8, O1, and R1-8, first 2 ff. loose, final f. loose and with lower margin trimmed to border, a few stains, loose in 19th century calf, upper cover almost detached, area of leather missing form upper cover, 8vo, [Imprinted at London in Fletestrete at the signe of the George nere to Sainct Dunstons Churche by William Powell], [in or before 1567]. ⁂ Aside from this copy this edition is only known in a reprint of 1842 by Cambridge University Press for The Parker Society, for which the present copy was used. It is interesting to note that for the reprint the title page of the 1570 edition had to be used due to the lack of the title herein. Our date of 'in or before 1567' is reached by the fact that William Powell ceased printing in 1567, with his name last appearing in the Registers in 1568, when his son was apprenticed to the printer H. Bynneman. This therefore makes our copy the earliest edition extant. The earliest edition recorded by ESTC is that of 1568 printed by Thomas East for Henry Middleton (STC 4028). During the reign of Queen Mary many of the protestant books for private worship were destroyed. The early years of the reign of Elizabeth saw the need for new printings of this type of work, and moreover, the need for them to be extended and improved. The present work is one of the earliest in this genre. Provenance: Rev. William Wilson (?1783-1873), Canon of Winchester (see p.vi of Parker reprint, Cambridge, 1842), presented by him to The Parker Society (their bookplate present and the signature of Aubrey Townsend, an editor at the society).
Only known copy of one of the earliest substantial Elizabethan prayer books.- [Bull (Henry)] [Christian Praiers and Holy Meditations], black letter, calendar and errata printed in red and black, text within double filet borders, woodcut decorative initials, lacking all but 1 leaf before A1 (including title), N1, 7&8, O1, and R1-8, first 2 ff. loose, final f. loose and with lower margin trimmed to border, a few stains, loose in 19th century calf, upper cover almost detached, area of leather missing form upper cover, 8vo, [Imprinted at London in Fletestrete at the signe of the George nere to Sainct Dunstons Churche by William Powell], [in or before 1567]. ⁂ Aside from this copy this edition is only known in a reprint of 1842 by Cambridge University Press for The Parker Society, for which the present copy was used. It is interesting to note that for the reprint the title page of the 1570 edition had to be used due to the lack of the title herein. Our date of 'in or before 1567' is reached by the fact that William Powell ceased printing in 1567, with his name last appearing in the Registers in 1568, when his son was apprenticed to the printer H. Bynneman. This therefore makes our copy the earliest edition extant. The earliest edition recorded by ESTC is that of 1568 printed by Thomas East for Henry Middleton (STC 4028). During the reign of Queen Mary many of the protestant books for private worship were destroyed. The early years of the reign of Elizabeth saw the need for new printings of this type of work, and moreover, the need for them to be extended and improved. The present work is one of the earliest in this genre. Provenance: Rev. William Wilson (?1783-1873), Canon of Winchester (see p.vi of Parker reprint, Cambridge, 1842), presented by him to The Parker Society (their bookplate present and the signature of Aubrey Townsend, an editor at the society).
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