HENRY VIII | Assertio septem sacramentorum, 1522

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HENRY VIII.

Assertio septem sacramentorum aduersus Martin. Lutheru[m]. In ædibus Pynsonianis, 1522

4to, second edition, woodcut border on title page by H. Holbein, woodcut initials, marginal notes, manuscript notes on title, in margins and on final three pages, lacking one of the final blanks [bound with:]

Baro, Peter. Petri Baronis ... in Jonam prophetam prælectiones 39... (Doctissimi cuiusdam viri Tractatus contra missae sacrificim). John Day, 1579 (1578), 4to, second work anonymous, not by Baro, with final blank, 2 parts, illustrated woodcut titles, printer's woodcut device on colophon page at the end [McKerrow 128]; contemporary rough calf, red morocco label on spine, red speckled edges, rebacked, edges repaired, some soiling and slight spotting, occasional damp-staining

The first work ("a critical moment in the history of the English Reformation": PMM) is the second edition of Henry VIII's scathing condemnation of Martin Luther, for which Pope Leo X, to whom the work is dedicated, awarded the king the title "Fidei Defensor." Pynson's woodcut compartment on the title-page was adapted from a design by Hans Holbein for the Aenei Platonici Christiani de immortalitate animae by Aeneas Gazaeus, printed by Froben in Basel in 1516. This 1522 edition appears in mixed states, sometimes entirely reset, and sometimes (as apparently here) with gatherings from STC 13078 (the first edition, 1521).

LITERATURE:

STC 13079, 1492

PROVENANCE:

"Geo. Baillie", ownership signature on title page of first work [probably George Baillie (1644-1738)]

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