LUPSET, Thomas. A Treatise of Charity, [colophon: London, in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti, 1533], 8°, FIRST EDITION, collation: A-E8, E8 blank, black letter (some soiling of margins), brown morocco by Riviere, ruled and tooled in blind, spine with raised bands titled in gilt in two compartments, g.e. [STC 16939: records only two perfect copies in the B.L. and Huntingdon]

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LUPSET, Thomas. A Treatise of Charity, [colophon: London, in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti, 1533], 8°, FIRST EDITION, collation: A-E8, E8 blank, black letter (some soiling of margins), brown morocco by Riviere, ruled and tooled in blind, spine with raised bands titled in gilt in two compartments, g.e. [STC 16939: records only two perfect copies in the B.L. and Huntingdon]

Provenance: "John [?] Brikerdinking and Godson: 72: of yeirs: and 37 in our own" (early ownership inscription on title); Robert Rivière's invoice, made out to Mr. Fagg, dated London, 5. 9. 1928. See frontispiece for title page illustration.

Thomas Lupset (1498?-1530), divine, helped More, Erasmus, and Linacre to prepare their works for the press, while himself producing religious works and translations.

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