Bibliographic Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English LiteratureKent, Henry Watson
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Bibliographic Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature
Kent, Henry Watson
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Another copy, dated July 30, is in folio. The title-page is
here bordered with ten woodcuts, having between the inner and
outer sets the rubricated text: "Let euerye soule submyt hym
ſelfe unto the aucthorite of the higher powers. For there is
no power but of God. The powers that be, are ordained of God
whoſoeuer therefore reſiſteth power: reſiſteth the
ordinance of God. Rom. XIVI." A royal coat-of-arms, which in
the quarto was placed before the order of Matins, here heads
the title, printed in red. Every other line following is also
rubricated. In Grafton's copy the "Te Deum Laudamus," "The
Song of Zacharias," and "The Letany," occur at the end of the
book but are not in the table of Contents.
The statement made in the Act that the work had been
concluded, set forth, and delivered, must apply, it is
thought, to the manuscript, since no printed copy is known
dated earlier than March. A copy printed by Whitchurch has
the date March 7, 1549, and another by Grafton is dated the
eighth; other copies are dated in May, June and July. The book
was used in the London churches on Easter Day, April 21, 1549,
and was ordered, as we have seen, to be used in all churches
after the Feast of Pentecost, which fell upon June 9 in 1549.
From the requirements of its use, we may infer that the
edition must have been a large one. We are sure of the price
of the volume from the following note, added at the end of the
book: "The Kynges Maieſtie, by the aduyſe of his moſte
deare vncle the Lorde Protector and other his highnes
Counſell, ſtreightly chargeth and commaundeth, that no
maner of perſon do ſell this preſent booke vnbounde,
aboue the price of .ii. Shyllynges the piece. And the ſame
bounde in paſte or in boordes, not aboue the price of three
ſhylleynges and foure pence the piece. God ſaue the Kyng."
The price differs in different volumes. A copy of Oswen's May
24th issue sets the price at two shillings and twopence for
unbound copies, and three shillings eightpence for bound
copies.
Folio. Black letter and Roman.
COLLATION: _183 leaves, including title-page. Sig. A-Y, AA-f._
WILLIAM LANGLAND
(1330?-1400?)
5. The Vision | of Pierce Plowman, now | fyrſte imprynted by Roberte
| Crowley, dwellyngin Ely | rentes in Holburne. | Anno Domini | 1505.
Cum priuilegio ad im | primend[~u] ſolum. [Colophon] ¶ Imprinted at
London by Roberte | Crowley, dwellyng in Elye rentes | in Holburne.
The year of | Our Lord M.D.L.
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