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Ascham, Roger
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
- Toxophilus: the schoole, or partitions of shooting contayned in two books... London: by Abell Ieffes, by the consent of H. Marsh, 1589
- paper, ink, leather
4to (190 x 135 mm). Woodcut title border, black letter; one leaf repaired in fore-margin with a few letters supplied in ink facsimile. Early eighteenth-century red morocco, gilt ruled with green spine labels.
Provenance
Marsden J. Perry (bookplate); R.B. Adam (bookplate)
Literature
STC (2nd ed.), 839; Pforzheimer 18
Catalogue Note
Third edition. The first is virtually unobtainable and even the second and third editions are uncommon at auction. "Not only is this the most renowned work on the subject of archery in English or for that matter, in any language, but its publication marked the beginning of the decline of the prejudice in favour of Latin as the literary language of Englishmen for original compositions" (Pforzheimer).