Assertio septem sacramentorum aduersus Martin. Lutheru[m], aedita ab inuictissimo Angliae et Franciae rege, et do. Hyberniae Henrico eius nominis octauo.
King Henry VIII (1491-1547)
Category
Books
Date
1521
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3087022
Summary
Bibliographic description
[160] p. ; 4to. Running number: 7077. Wanting final two blank leaves. Provenance: manuscript book number or inventory number in red crayon on rear pastedown, presumably the mark of an early eighteenth-century collector or bookseller: "A1309". Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; sewn on five supports; double and single gilt fillet border; gilt fillet along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with brown leather title label 'Hen VIII Ass'; red burnished textblock edges; peacock[?] pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
King Henry VIII (1491-1547), author Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg 1497/8 - London 1543), artist Richard Pynson (d. 1530), printer