Sold for:
$492
$492
Latimer, Hugh (1487-1555) Frutefull Sermons . London: John Daye, [1578]. Quarto in eights, third edition, edited by Augustine Bernher, collated, lacking the final text leaf, Ll2; title in woodcut compartment; bound in an unusual contemporary or slightly later binding of speckled calfskin over oak boards, and strange edge decoration of green and red squiggle shapes, wormed, covering material chipped at corners, front hinge repaired, failing, cloth tape along the gutter, front and back. Latimer was an Oxford martyr to Anglicanism, burned at the stake in 1555 under Queen Mary in her Catholic crusade.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
