Tres Thomae : seu, De S. Thomae Apostoli rebus gestis : De S. Thoma Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi & martyre : D. Thomae Mori Angliae quondam cancellarij vita : his adiecta est Oratio funebris in laudem R.P. Arnoldi de Ganthois, Abbatis Marchennensis / authore Thoma Stapletono.
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Tres Thomae : seu, De S. Thomae Apostoli rebus gestis : De S. Thoma Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi & martyre : D. Thomae Mori Angliae quondam cancellarij vita : his adiecta est Oratio funebris in laudem R.P. Arnoldi de Ganthois, Abbatis Marchennensis / authore Thoma Stapletono.
Created/published
Duaci : Ex officina Ioannis Bogardi, 1588.
Description
[1] leaf of plates, [16], 168, 375 [i.e. 279], [21] pages : 2 portraits ; 17 cm
Associated name
Stapleton, Thomas, 1535-1598, author.
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From dealer's description: "8vo., pp. [16], 168, ‘375’ [i.e. 275], [25], with two terminal blank leaves; engraved portrait of Thomas More on 2a1v; title-page slightly dusty, but a very good copy in contemporary limp vellum, covers gilt with a Jesuit device, gilt edges, rather dusty, ties wanting; underlining, marginal and interlinear annotations throughout in a contemporary hand (see below); William Beckford’s copy, lot 2197 in the 1882 Hamilton Palace sale (‘corrected throughout in MS. for a new edition’), his cinquefoil device added to the spine in blind; subsequently in the library of the Irish judge William O’Brien, part of his 1899 gift to the Jesuit library at Milltown Park, with booklabels. First edition of this collection of biographies by the English Catholic exile Thomas Stapleton. The ‘Three Thomases’ are Thomas the Apostle, Thomas a Becket, and Thomas More. The life of More, by far the most substantial part of the volume (the second paginated sequence), was based in part on More’s own works, but has ‘great and independent value in that it enshrines the personal recollections of More’s household who were fellow-exiles for the Faith with Stapleton in the Low Countries. Still more important was the collection of letters he received from the widow of John Harris, More’s secretary’, for which Tres Thomae is the only source (Hallett). Possibly named after More, who was executed a few days before his birth, Stapleton was educated at Winchester (where he was one of forty-one boys to pen a laudatory poem to Edward VI on his annual progress in 1552) and Oxford. He went into exile after the accession of Elizabeth and spent almost all of the rest of his life in the Low Countries, where he published a number of English recusant works. After his move to Douai he concentrated on voluminous Latin controversial literature, as well as this less contentious volume. It proved popular across Europe, with editions in Paris, Cologne, Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Graz, but was not translated into English until the twentieth century. The exact nature of the annotations in the present copy, and their origin, has not been determined – and we could not trace an example of Stapleton’s hand for comparison. In places they are extremely dense and seem to show editorial practice – grammatical corrections, the introduction of commas, substantive additions; elsewhere they seem to suggest someone analysing the structure of the text. Adams S-1662; Allison & Rogers 1159."
From dealer's description: "8vo., pp. [16], 168, ‘375’ [i.e. 275], [25], with two terminal blank leaves; engraved portrait of Thomas More on 2a1v; title-page slightly dusty, but a very good copy in contemporary limp vellum, covers gilt with a Jesuit device, gilt edges, rather dusty, ties wanting; underlining, marginal and interlinear annotations throughout in a contemporary hand (see below); William Beckford’s copy, lot 2197 in the 1882 Hamilton Palace sale (‘corrected throughout in MS. for a new edition’), his cinquefoil device added to the spine in blind; subsequently in the library of the Irish judge William O’Brien, part of his 1899 gift to the Jesuit library at Milltown Park, with booklabels. First edition of this collection of biographies by the English Catholic exile Thomas Stapleton. The ‘Three Thomases’ are Thomas the Apostle, Thomas a Becket, and Thomas More. The life of More, by far the most substantial part of the volume (the second paginated sequence), was based in part on More’s own works, but has ‘great and independent value in that it enshrines the personal recollections of More’s household who were fellow-exiles for the Faith with Stapleton in the Low Countries. Still more important was the collection of letters he received from the widow of John Harris, More’s secretary’, for which Tres Thomae is the only source (Hallett). Possibly named after More, who was executed a few days before his birth, Stapleton was educated at Winchester (where he was one of forty-one boys to pen a laudatory poem to Edward VI on his annual progress in 1552) and Oxford. He went into exile after the accession of Elizabeth and spent almost all of the rest of his life in the Low Countries, where he published a number of English recusant works. After his move to Douai he concentrated on voluminous Latin controversial literature, as well as this less contentious volume. It proved popular across Europe, with editions in Paris, Cologne, Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Graz, but was not translated into English until the twentieth century. The exact nature of the annotations in the present copy, and their origin, has not been determined – and we could not trace an example of Stapleton’s hand for comparison. In places they are extremely dense and seem to show editorial practice – grammatical corrections, the introduction of commas, substantive additions; elsewhere they seem to suggest someone analysing the structure of the text. Adams S-1662; Allison & Rogers 1159."
Place of creation/publication
France.
Item Details
Call number
270055
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "8vo., pp. [16], 168, ‘375’ [i.e. 275], [25], with two terminal blank leaves; engraved portrait of Thomas More on 2a1v; title-page slightly dusty, but a very good copy in contemporary limp vellum, covers gilt with a Jesuit device, gilt edges, rather dusty, ties wanting; underlining, marginal and interlinear annotations throughout in a contemporary hand (see below); William Beckford’s copy, lot 2197 in the 1882 Hamilton Palace sale (‘corrected throughout in MS. for a new edition’), his cinquefoil device added to the spine in blind; subsequently in the library of the Irish judge William O’Brien, part of his 1899 gift to the Jesuit library at Milltown Park, with booklabels. First edition of this collection of biographies by the English Catholic exile Thomas Stapleton. The ‘Three Thomases’ are Thomas the Apostle, Thomas a Becket, and Thomas More. The life of More, by far the most substantial part of the volume (the second paginated sequence), was based in part on More’s own works, but has ‘great and independent value in that it enshrines the personal recollections of More’s household who were fellow-exiles for the Faith with Stapleton in the Low Countries. Still more important was the collection of letters he received from the widow of John Harris, More’s secretary’, for which Tres Thomae is the only source (Hallett). Possibly named after More, who was executed a few days before his birth, Stapleton was educated at Winchester (where he was one of forty-one boys to pen a laudatory poem to Edward VI on his annual progress in 1552) and Oxford. He went into exile after the accession of Elizabeth and spent almost all of the rest of his life in the Low Countries, where he published a number of English recusant works. After his move to Douai he concentrated on voluminous Latin controversial literature, as well as this less contentious volume. It proved popular across Europe, with editions in Paris, Cologne, Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Graz, but was not translated into English until the twentieth century. The exact nature of the annotations in the present copy, and their origin, has not been determined – and we could not trace an example of Stapleton’s hand for comparison. In places they are extremely dense and seem to show editorial practice – grammatical corrections, the introduction of commas, substantive additions; elsewhere they seem to suggest someone analysing the structure of the text. Adams S-1662; Allison & Rogers 1159." Ordered from Quaritch, D9161 2017-12-17, Midwinter 2018 catalog, item 54. Purchase made possible by The Professor Emile V. Telle Acquisitions Fund.
Folger accession
270055