An Admonition to the People of England Against Martin Mar-Prelate [Marprelate]

Cooper, Thomas

Verlag: John Petheram, London, 1847

Beschreibung

1847. Reprint. xii, 203pp. Thomas Cooper (c1517-1594) was an English bishop, lexicographer, theologian, and writer. He was a stout controversialist; he defended the practice and precept of the Church of England against the Roman Catholics on the one hand and against the Martin Marprelate writings and the Puritans on the other. Martin Marprelate (some times printed as Martin Mar-Prelate) was the name used by the anonymous author or authors of the seven Marprelate tracts that circulated illegally in England in the years 1588 and 1589. Their principal focus was an attack on the episcopacy of the Anglican Church. The editor of this scarce reprint from 1847 writes in the introduction that there were two editions of the Admonition, both bearing the date of 1589, the title pages of which are nearly identical. This similarity extends only to the early part of the work, and the second, or corrected edition, has been chosen as the text for this reprint. The book is bound in the original dark green-blue cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some expected signs of its age. There is shelf wear with light soiling on the boards and the spine ends and corners are bumped with some damage to the cloth at the spine ends (0.5cm loss from top). The front spine edge has a hole in the cloth of about 1/4" near the bottom and there are some small holes in the cloth on the rear spine edge. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. There is lioght soiling on the endpapers and the front fixed endpaper has traces of a removed bookplate and the front free endpaper has a small hole. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers VIRel116

Bibliografische Details

Titel: An Admonition to the People of England ...

Verlag: John Petheram, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1847

Einband: Original Dark Green Cloth HB

Zustand: Very Good-

Auflage: Reprint