25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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Homilies and Sermons
Latimer (Hugh), Frutefull Sermons Preached by the right reverend father and constant Martyr of Jesus Christ M. Hugh Latymer newly imprinted ...
John Daye, 1571, [2], 124 leaves, the title and preliminary leaf supplied in good facsimile, fo. 1 worn at fore-edge with functional repair, age tanning and some staining to pages, [bound with];
idem, Seven Sermons made upon the Lordes Prayer, preached by the right reverend father ......M. Hugh Latimer ...,
John Daye, 1572, [6], 219 leaves, the title and other five preliminary leaves and the final leaf supplied in facsimile, pages shaved with loss of headlines, foliation and catchwords, loss of lower line on at least one page, several marginal tears, tanning and staining.
Bound in early calf with recent ties, 'P.p Candler' to front worn free endpaper, possibly Rev. Phillip Candler, headmaster of Woodbridge Grammar School, 1670-1688, manuscript notes on three pages of blanks before first title. ESTC S108312
With three further volumes of sixteenth century Sermons and Homilies, ten volumes of seventeenth century Sermons and one other. (15)
Sold for £1,600
Estimated at £500 - £800
Auction: The David Stather Library, 25th Jan, 2023
A single-owner sale of the Library of David Stather (1940-2022)
The library comprises a large collection of early books, pamphlets and manuscripts on English history, focusing on the English Civil War, the ‘Popish Plot’, the Monmouth Rebellion and the Glorious Revolution, early Parliament and the Monarchy of that period, the development of English law, the Reformation, early bibles and prayer books, chronicles of English history and some very early books on witchcraft.
The earliest manuscript dates from 1285, and the earliest book is an incunable from 1486, however the majority date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Interestingly, many are books that contribute to English history rather than just reporting on it, for example the collection includes books reporting the Popish Plot, which were written specifically to create social division through what is now known as ‘fake news’.
The books have been lovingly preserved by David Stather and the auction provides a rare opportunity to purchase books from a very focused collection built up over his lifetime.
Please submit any enquiries for the sale to books@tennants-ltd.co.uk
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