Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
DERING, EDWARD. A Sermon preached before the Queenes Majestie . . . the 25 day of Februarie. Anno.1569. Title within woodcut border. [24] leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. 8vo, 138x93 mm, later 19th-century blind-ruled russia by Riviere & Son, front joint starting; contents toned with occasional marginal soiling, dampstain along bottom edge of opening leaves. STC 6702. London: John Charlewood, 1578

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"Dering took the queen herself to task in the most outspoken Lenten sermon she ever heard . . . Dering held Elizabeth personally responsible for the deplorable state of the ministry of her church . . . No Elizabethan sermon was more often reprinted" (ODNB). STC 6702.