BALE, John (1495-1563). llustrium Maioris Britanniae Scriptorum. 'Ipswich: John Overton' [Wesel: Dierck van der Straten], 31 July 1548. 4° (198 x 148 mm). Title-page with woodcut illustration, woodcut portrait of John Wicliffe, 2 vignettes and initials. (Paper repair to the title and a few margins, occasional light soiling.) Brown morocco by Bedford, panelled in gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: Henry Huth (bookplate) -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners). THE HUTH COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH AUTHORS. Bale undertoook his antiquarian project to preserve and catalogue the manuscript holdings of those libraries threatened by the dissolution of the monasteries. He often remarked that 'to destroye all without consyderacyon, is and wyll be unto Englande for ever, a moste horryble infamy amonge the grave senyours of other nacyons' (Aston, Lollards and Reformers , 1984, p.327). Bale's Scriptorum was distributed from Ipswich for its English readers, and from Wesel for its continental audience. STC 1296; ESTCS 100599.
BALE, John (1495-1563). llustrium Maioris Britanniae Scriptorum. 'Ipswich: John Overton' [Wesel: Dierck van der Straten], 31 July 1548. 4° (198 x 148 mm). Title-page with woodcut illustration, woodcut portrait of John Wicliffe, 2 vignettes and initials. (Paper repair to the title and a few margins, occasional light soiling.) Brown morocco by Bedford, panelled in gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: Henry Huth (bookplate) -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners). THE HUTH COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH AUTHORS. Bale undertoook his antiquarian project to preserve and catalogue the manuscript holdings of those libraries threatened by the dissolution of the monasteries. He often remarked that 'to destroye all without consyderacyon, is and wyll be unto Englande for ever, a moste horryble infamy amonge the grave senyours of other nacyons' (Aston, Lollards and Reformers , 1984, p.327). Bale's Scriptorum was distributed from Ipswich for its English readers, and from Wesel for its continental audience. STC 1296; ESTCS 100599.
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