The spider and the flie : a parable of the spider and the flie / made by Iohn Heywood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heywood, John, 1497?-1580?

Contributor:

Powell, Thomas, active 1556-1563, printer.

Riviere & Son, binder.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Lefferts, Marshall C. (Marshall Clifford), 1848-1928 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Penrose, Boies, 1902-1976 (donor) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

456 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

e,e: onr-to5. made (C) 1556 (A)

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London ... : By Tho. Pouuell, Anno 1556.

Summary:

An allegorical poem in defence of the Catholic party during the reign of Queen Mary. The Catholics are represented as the flies and the Protestants as the spiders.

Notes:

Signatures: A-C⁴, ²A-2S⁴ + inserted gatherings as follows: after 2A3: "[fleuron]Aaiiii"⁴, "Aav"⁴, "Aavi"⁴; after 2B3: "Bbiiii"²; after 2C1: "[left-pointing hand]Ccii"²; after 2C2: "[fleuron]Cciii"²; after 2D1: "*[cross]Ddii"²; after 2D3: "[double dagger]*[double dagger]Ddiiii"⁴; after 2D4: "[cross]"²; after 2E1: "Eeii"²; after 2E2: "[par.][double dagger]Eeiii"², "[par.][double dagger]"², ²"[par.][double dagger]"⁴; after 2E3: "[Greek contraction 'tos'(?)]Eeiiii"²; after 2F3: "[par.][inverted par.]Ffiiii"⁴, "[par.][inverted par.]"⁴; after 2F4: "[2 pointing hands]"²; after 2G1: "Ggii"⁴.

Title within architectural woodcut border; woodcut illustrations, initials and tail-pieces.

Typographical ornaments.

Printer's initials ("T.P.") at foot of title leaf.

Colophon on leaf 2S4v reads: Imprinted at London in Flete-Strete, by Tho. Pouuell. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 246:10 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Given to the Penn Libraries in 1957 by Boies Penrose.

Culture Class Collection copy bound by Riviere & Son in full brown morocco; boards tooled in gold and blind; 5 raised gold-ruled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title, author's last name and date of printing stamped in gold on spine; gold-ruled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt; binder's name stamped in gold on tail front turn-in.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Marshall Clifford Lefferts on front pastedown; bookplate of Boies Penrose (1902-1976) pasted over bookplate of Boies Penrose II on front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's printed description affixed to front pastedown; ms. note ("Riviere 1885") in pencil at head of back free endpaper.

Cited in:

ESTC S106106

STC (2nd ed.), 13308

Pforzheimer, 469

OCLC:

228713748