ALES (Alexander)—continued. 21 22 23 24 DE AUTHORITATE VERBI DEI LIBER ALEXANDRI ALESII, contra Episcopum Lundensem. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, red morocco, g. e. DOCTORIS THEOLOGIAE DILIGENS REFUTATIO ERRORUM, quos sparsit nuper Andreas Osiander in libro, cui titulum fecit: de unico Mediatore Christo. Small 8vo, red morocco, g. e. Witebergae ex officina Johannis Lufftü, 1552. Last leaf slightly repaired. £2 158. OMNES DISPUTATIONES D. ALEXANDRI ALESII DE TOTA EPISTOLA AD ROMANOS DIVERSIS TEMPORIBUS PROPOSITAE AD IPSO IN CELEBRI ACADEMIA LIPSENSI, et a multis doctis viris expetitae, iam tandem collectae per Georgium Hantsch, et editae in gratiam studiosorum. Cum praefatione Philippi Melanchthonis. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, morocco, g. e. [Leipzig] 1553. Concludes with an address to Thomas Cranmer. £225 THE EARLIEST REFORMED PORTION OF THE ENGLISH LITURGY. SPECIE. 12 leaves, 12mo, full morocco, g. e. Haec Londini Evulgata sunt octavo die Martii, 1548. £25 The Communion Office of Edward VI., and the Earliest Reformed Portion of the English Liturgy; made known to the churches abroad by ALES who afterwards translated the Prayer Book into Latin. This Latin version of the English Reformed Communion Service appeared a year before the First English Prayer Book. Alexander Ales, Lutheran divine, was born at Edinburgh, 1500. At Wittenburg in 1533 he made the acquaintance of Luther and Melanchthon, and he came to England in August, 1535, the bearer of a letter and a book for King Henry from Melanchthon. "In the reign of Edward VI. Ales seems once more to have visited England, ALES (Alexander): ORDO DISTRIBUTIONIS-continued. where Archbishop Cranmer employed him to translate into Latin the first liturgy of King Edward VI. for the use of Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr, whose views on the Communion Book' were desired by Cranmer, but who lacked the requisite knowledge of the English tongue. It is with reference to this piece of work and the changes afterwards introduced into the communion service that, at a disputation held at Oxford, 18 April, 1554, between Latimer and a numerous body of opponents, the prolocutor Dr. Weston declared that a runagate Scot did take away the adoration or worshipping of Christ in the sacrament; by whose procurement that heresy was put into the last communion book; so much prevailed that one man's authority at that time.' D.N.B. 25 ALEXANDER (Sir William, Earl of Stirling). THE TRAGIDIE OF DARIUS. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Small 4to. Half green morocco, g. e. London, Printed by G. Elde for Edward Blount. 1604. 26 ALEYN (Charles). THE BATTAILES OF CRESCEY AND POICTIERS, under the Fortunes and Valour of King Edward the Third of that name and his sonne, Edward, Prince of Wales, named the black. The Second Edition enlarged. Small 8vo. Bound by Riviere in full crushed red levant morocco extra, g. e. London, 1633. £4 4s THE FIRST POETICAL ANTHOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 27 ALLOT (Robert). ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS; or, The Choysest Flowers of our Modern Poets, with their Poeticall Comparisons. Small 8vo. Fine copy in full morocco, g. e. Imprinted at London for Nicholas) L(ing), C(uthbert) B(urby) and T(homas) H(ayes). 1600. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. II.) £160 This is the first Poetical Anthology of English Literature, and is also the most valuable. This extremely rare selection from Shakespeare, and other poets, has enabled (Continued over) ALLOT (Robert): ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS continued. Editors to assign to their true authors various pieces not otherwise known. It has also preserved numerous verses of the Elizabethan and ante-Elizabethan period nowhere else to be met with, and the names of poets who are not otherwise known in literary history than by their mention in England's Parnassus. It has hitherto been the custom to consider that the initials R. A. at the foot of the dedication to Sir Thomas Mounson concealed the name of Robert Allot, but Mr. Collier, who devotes three pages to a description, has adduced very plausible reasons for identifying them with Robert Armin, Actor and Author, who was a member of Shakespear's company in 1603. Among other early English Authors the following are referred to: 28 Dekker (Thomas) Drayton (Michael) Gascoigne (George) Greene (Robert) Jonson (Ben) Harrington (Sir John) Lodge (Thomas) Marlowe (Christopher) Marston (John) Middleton (Christopher) Middleton (Thomas) . Nash (Thomas). Peele (George) Sidney (Sir Philip) Spencer (Edmund) Surrey (Earl of) 69 5 115 WITS THEATER OF THE LITTLE WORLD. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, vellum gilt. Printed by I. R. for N. L. and are to be sold at the West doore of Paules. 1599. SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. III.) £84 Very fine copy of the First Edition. One of the most popular of the Elizabethan collections of Maxims from the Philosophers. A collection of moral sayings gathered from classical authors, anecdotes of famous men, historical epitomes, and the like. It contains much curious information. Dedicated to John Bodenham and printed for Nicholas Ling the Stationer with his woodcut device on the title. There is little doubt that Allot and not Bodenham was the editor, for a copy of this edition in the British Museum contains an epistle in which Allot dedicates to Bodenham this "collection of the flowers of antiquities and histories." |