"MARPRELATE, Martin" [pseudonym of ?Job Throckmorton] (fl. 1588-1589). Hay any worke for Cooper: Or a briefe Pistle directed by waye of an hublication to the reverende Byshopps counselling them if they will needs be barrelled up for feare of smelling in the nostrels of her Maiestie or the State [Coventry]: 'Printed in Europe not farre from some of the Bouncing Priestes' [Robert Waldegrave, 1589]. 4° (166 x 120mm). Black letter. (Restoration to margins affecting some text, top margin trimmed touching a few headlines, minor ink marginalia to A1-A2, some soiling to first and last few leaves). 19th-century half calf, spine lettered in gold (rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners). FIRST EDITION of this rare radical Presbyterian tract. Adopting a strategy of serious jesting to broaden his audience, Martin took ecclesiastical debates into the street, and affected the development of Elizabethan comic prose. More than twenty people are known to have collaborated on the Marprelate tracts, in addition to a wide network of suppliers and distributors, all of whom risked charges of treason. The identity of Martin Marprelate has tantalized investigators since Elizabethan times. The argument for Job Throckmorton as the writer behind Martin's distinctive style is now generally accepted, although John Penry was certainly a collaborator (DNB). The seven extant tracts were printed on a press owned by Robert Waldegrave, and moved from one household to another. Hay any worke for Cooper was almost certainly printed in late March at Whitefriars, Coventry, in the house of Sir Richard Knightley's nephew John Hales. ESTCS 112300; STC 17456.
"MARPRELATE, Martin" [pseudonym of ?Job Throckmorton] (fl. 1588-1589). Hay any worke for Cooper: Or a briefe Pistle directed by waye of an hublication to the reverende Byshopps counselling them if they will needs be barrelled up for feare of smelling in the nostrels of her Maiestie or the State [Coventry]: 'Printed in Europe not farre from some of the Bouncing Priestes' [Robert Waldegrave, 1589]. 4° (166 x 120mm). Black letter. (Restoration to margins affecting some text, top margin trimmed touching a few headlines, minor ink marginalia to A1-A2, some soiling to first and last few leaves). 19th-century half calf, spine lettered in gold (rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners). FIRST EDITION of this rare radical Presbyterian tract. Adopting a strategy of serious jesting to broaden his audience, Martin took ecclesiastical debates into the street, and affected the development of Elizabethan comic prose. More than twenty people are known to have collaborated on the Marprelate tracts, in addition to a wide network of suppliers and distributors, all of whom risked charges of treason. The identity of Martin Marprelate has tantalized investigators since Elizabethan times. The argument for Job Throckmorton as the writer behind Martin's distinctive style is now generally accepted, although John Penry was certainly a collaborator (DNB). The seven extant tracts were printed on a press owned by Robert Waldegrave, and moved from one household to another. Hay any worke for Cooper was almost certainly printed in late March at Whitefriars, Coventry, in the house of Sir Richard Knightley's nephew John Hales. ESTCS 112300; STC 17456.
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