Impr. 122: (eights) 12o: pp. [26] + 168 + [2]: p. 11 beg. damagement both, 111 temperatures, this: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (2) engraving, see below: (3) engraved title, see below: (5–13), Epistle dedicatory to sir Justinian Lewin, dated “from my study in Saint Iohns (Camb.) x Calend March. T. W.”: 15–25 “To the Reader”, signed “T. W.”: (25–26) “The Titles and Contents of the severall Chapters ...”: 1–162, the work: 163–167, “The Close”, a poem: 168, “Catastrophe Lectori”, an English poem.
For the author, see Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 350. The proof of authorship is not clear, but the fact seems generally accepted, and Walkington was certainly a Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. The book has also been attributed to Tho. Wilbie and T. Wombwell, according to Bohn’s Lowndes. This is a reprint of the 1607 London edition, re-printed at London in 1639 and 1663. Hitherto this Oxford edition has been generally regarded as the first, and the British Museum catalogue assigns it doubtfully to 1605. But it cannot be earlier than 1627 from the woodcuts used, and in that year first William Turner printed books by himself. And it cannot be later than 2 Aug. 1638 when Michael Sparke assigned this book to John Dawson with one of 1631 and one not earlier than 1631. Again, a comparison of 20 imprints of Michael Sparke between 1627 and 1638 raises a presumption that he did not use the expression “are to be sold by Michael Sparke at (or, dwelling at) the Blue Bible in Green Arbour” (nor was he connected with Oxford printers) until 1632, and he uses no local description of the kind at all in his imprints till 1629. On the whole 1631 is a probable year for the issue of this book, and 1631–33 more likely than any earlier or later date.
The engraved title on steel (size of plate 5½ × 3½ in.) does not occur in the 1607 ed. and was doubtless made for this occasion: it was altered in the imprint and then used again in 1639 and 1663. On either side of the title is a graduate in cap and gown representing “Cambridge” and “Oxford”: together they hold upright what seems intended for an optic glass or touchstone, but presents the exact appearance of a half-closed umbrella. Facing the title and part of the plate is another engraving (plate 5½ × 3½ in., as the title) which a reference to pag. 77 l. 2 shows to represent the Temperaments or complexions, with concentric rings: at top are two small wholly fanciful engravings of “Oxford” and “Cambridge”, each 5/16 × 111
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31. Widdowes, Giles. THE | LAWLESSE | KNEELESSE | SCHISMATICALL | PVRITAN. | OR | A CONFVTATION | OF THE AVTHOR | OF AN APPENDIX, | concerning bowing at the | name of Iesus. | WRITTEN | by Giles Widdowes Rector of St | Martins Church in Oxford, | and late fellow of | Oriell Colledge. | [motto.]
Impr. 107: 1631: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 90 + [1]: p. 11 beg. must bow, now: Pica Roman. Contents:—(1) title: (3–4) dedication to Endymion Porter: 1–11, “To the true Protestant Reader”: 13–90, the treatise, in defence of bowing at the name of Jesus: 91, “Errata”.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 179, and 1630 W. This is a reply to Prynne’s attack on the latter work.
32. ——. THE | SCHISMATICAL | PVRITAN. | [&c., exactly as 1630 W, except Ceremoines for Ceremonies, and after “Oxford”] | The second edition, Augmented. |
Impr. 137: 1631: sm. 4o: pp. [48], signn. A-F4: sign. B12 beg. wee confesse: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A1: title: A2r-A2v, dedication, as in 1st ed.: A3r-C4r “To the Puritan”: D1r-F4v, the sermon, on 1 Cor. xiv. 40.
See 1630 W: the augmentation appears to be only in the Preface.