The spider and the flie : a parable of the spider and the flie
- Description
- An allegorical poem in defence of the Catholic party during the reign of Queen Mary. The Catholics are represented as the flies and the Protestants as the spiders.
- Creator
- Heywood, John, 1497?-1580?
- Powell, Thomas, active 1556-1563 (printer)
- Form
- books
- Date
- 1556
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Riviere & Son
- STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 456 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm (4to)
- Publisher
- By Tho. Pouuell
- Related Place
- England -- London.
- Notes
- Signatures: A-C⁴, ²A-2S⁴ + inserted gatherings as follows: after 2A3: "[fleuron]Aaiiii"⁴, "Aav"⁴, "Aavi"⁴; after 2B3: "Bbiiii"²; after 2C1: "[left-pointing hand]Ccii"²; after 2C2: "[fleuron]Cciii"²; after 2D1: "*[cross]Ddii"²; after 2D3: "[double dagger]*[double dagger]Ddiiii"⁴; after 2D4: "[cross]"²; after 2E1: "Eeii"²; after 2E2: "[par.][double dagger]Eeiii"², "[par.][double dagger]"², ²"[par.][double dagger]"⁴; after 2E3: "[Greek contraction 'tos'(?)]Eeiiii"²; after 2F3: "[par.][inverted par.]Ffiiii"⁴, "[par.][inverted par.]"⁴; after 2F4: "[2 pointing hands]"²; after 2G1: "Ggii"⁴.
- Title within architectural woodcut border; woodcut illustrations, initials and tail-pieces.
- Typographical ornaments.
- Printer's initials ("T.P.") at foot of title leaf.
- Colophon on leaf 2S4v reads: Imprinted at London in Flete-Strete, by Tho. Pouuell. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
- Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 246:10 on UMI microfilm.
- Given to the Penn Libraries in 1957 by Boies Penrose.
- Culture Class Collection copy bound by Riviere & Son in full brown morocco; boards tooled in gold and blind; 5 raised gold-ruled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title, author's last name and date of printing stamped in gold on spine; gold-ruled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt; binder's name stamped in gold on tail front turn-in.
- Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Marshall Clifford Lefferts on front pastedown; bookplate of Boies Penrose (1902-1976) pasted over bookplate of Boies Penrose II on front free endpaper.
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's printed description affixed to front pastedown; ms. note ("Riviere 1885") in pencil at head of back free endpaper.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3hm53m7f
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, EC55 H5916 556s
- Provenance
- Lefferts, Marshall C. (Marshall Clifford), 1848-1928 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Penrose, Boies, 1902-1976 (donor) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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