WIED

WIED, HERMANN VON (ARCHBISHOP-ELECTOR OF COLOGNE) - A SIMPLE, AND RELIGIOUS CONSULTATION of vs Herman by the grace of God Archebishop of Colone, and prince Electour. [et] c. by what meanes a Christian reformation, and founded in Gods worde, of doctrine, administration of the deuine sacramentes, of ceremonies, and the hole cure of soules, and other ecclesiastical ministeries may be begon among men committed to our pastorall charge, vntil the Lorde graunt a better to be appoynted either by a free, and Christian cou[n]sayle, general, or national, or elles by the states of the empire of the natio[n] of Germanie, gathered together in the holye Gost. [London], Imprinted in the yere of our Lorde. 1547. The .xxx. of October. I[ohn]. D[aye]. First edition in English, small 8vo, lacks title and a8 (reverse woodcut of The Last Supper) both supplied in facsimile, otherwise complete and collates as per the British Library copy, extensive early underlining and marginal annotations which add to the charm of the book, some words rubricated, rebound (inappropriately) in modern garish red leather, new end-papers. Colophon reads: Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye dwellyng in Sepulchres paryshe at the sygne of the Resurrection a lytle aboue Houlbourne Conduyt. ESTC S103980, scarce. Provenance: St John's College, Nottingham