Title: Falsificationum Romanorum
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Falsificationum Romanorum: et <span style="color:#212529;">catholicarum
restitutionum Tomi Primi Liber primus. </span><span style="color:#212529;">Ad
Ecclesi</span></span><span lang="la" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#1A1A1A;" xml:lang="la">æ</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">
Catholic</span><span lang="la" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#1A1A1A;" xml:lang="la">æ</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;"> usum
&amp; honorem, &amp; synagoge Roman</span><span lang="la" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#1A1A1A;" xml:lang="la">æ</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;"> iustum opprobrium, observavit &amp;
detexit W. Crashanius in Theologia Bacchal. &amp; verbi divini […] apud Templ.
Lond. Pr</span><span lang="la" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#1A1A1A;" xml:lang="la">æ</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">dic.
Cum indice controversiarum / Romish forgeries and falsifications: Together with
Catholike Restitutions. The first Booke or the first Tome. Observed, collected,
and now discovered for the use and honour of the Catholike Church, and to the
iust rebuke of the Romish Sinagoge, by W. Crashaw Bachelor in Divinitie, and
Preacher at the Temples. This first Booke is set forth in Latine and English
for the use of the English Reader, whether he be a true Catholike or a Romish.
The Contents see on the next page.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p>

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<p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Small
4to. ff. <span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);">[2] (blank), pp. [82],
160-161, [5]. </span><span style="color:#212529;">P. 155 misprinted 157 (1st);
p. 160 on verso of p. 157 (2nd), but text and signatures continuous. Signatures:
</span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">¶</span><span style="color:#212529;">⁴ A⁶ B-2F⁴ 2G² (2G2 blank and genuine). Bound in 19<sup>th</sup>-century</span>
green straight-grain morocco. <span style="color:#212529;">Head- and tailpieces,
engraved initials</span>. The Joseph Mendham copy with his manuscript notes,
later Law Society bookplate. Complete with both Latin and English title pages
and terminal blank leaf [Gg2], and with all sidenotes intact. Latin title page
has printer's device (R. B. McKerrow, <span>Printers'
&amp; publishers' devices in England &amp; Scotland, 1485-1640. London, 1913,
p.</span> 164); English title page has ornament only.</span></p><p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bound with Thomas James’s
<span class="marclinepart">An explanation
or enlarging of the ten articles in the supplication of Doctor Iames, lately
exhibited to the clergy of England. Or A manifest proofe that they are both
reasonable and faisible within the time mentioned </span>(Oxford: John
Lichfield and William Turner, 1625; only edition, see Bib# 5751511; W. A.
Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, &amp; K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of
Books Printed in England, Scotland, &amp; Ireland, and of English Books Printed
Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2<sup>nd</sup> ed.), 14454; F.
Madan, Books in manuscript: a short introduction to their study and use, with a
chapter on records. London, 1893, i, p. 124).</span></p><p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">First edition, first state of the
sidenote on ¶3<sup>r</sup>, <span style="color:#212529;">listing only J. Hare
and H. Hall, without adding Sir H. Montague and Sir J. Jackson. </span>The is
the first publication of William Crashaw (1572-1626), father of the poet, and
all that he completed of a remarkable project, essentially bibliographical. To
reveal the extent to which the Roman Catholic church had silently censored –
through deliberate cuts, additions and alterations – the works of a wide range
of distinguished and supposedly orthodox writers, he proposes to examine the
published works of ‘Vives, Erasmus,
Cardinall Caietane, Ferus, Stella, Epicaeus, Oleaster, Faber, &amp;c’,
beginning here mainly with Joannes Ferus (Johann Wild) and his commentary on
the first epistle of John. Crashaw’s method is to offer facing texts from ‘old’
editions and those ‘purged’, both in Spain and at Rome: ‘I shew the <i>old</i>
bookes as the <i>Authors </i>wrote them, I produce the <i>new</i> ones as the <i>Pope
</i>hath purged them: I lay them together, and thereupon set downe the booke,
the leafe, the line, and the very words which they have added, altered, or
razed out’. His collations are painstaking, and his research based upon access
to multiple editions; he concludes with an appeal to fellow divines ‘to helpe
me with what ancient Editions you have of any of the books named in the
Preface, for the better proceeding of this Worke’, especially because ‘the
Romish purgers and Inquisitors have made such bonfires of them in nations
beyond the seas, that hardly or not at all can any of them be got’. The
commendatory verse, in Latin and in English, is by ‘I. R.’ of the Inner Temple,
‘I. H., Cantabr.’, and ‘I. D. Scoto-Brittanus’. See also W. A. Jackson, F. S.
Ferguson, &amp; K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in
England, Scotland, &amp; Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad,
1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2<sup>nd</sup> ed.), 6014; the English
Short Title Catalogue online record copy (Harmsworth-Folger) is defective, and
the entry does not record leaf Gg2 (blank).</span></p><p></p>

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