"The Marprelate Tracts [1588-1589]", a facsimile reproduction by The Scolar Press, Leeds, England, 1967.

The facsimile copies of a series of seven seditious pamphlets published 1588-89. They are mentioned in almost all histories of the Elizabethan era, of the Anglican Church, and when considering the religious disputes between the Puritans and the Church of England in the late sixteenth century. The first four pamphlets are in Black Letter (Gothic) type, and the remainder in a Roman type of small size.

Hard boards, original publisher's red cloth with gold Scolar Press vignette on the front board and gold lettering on spine [very little soiling and wear]; 5.3/4" x 8"; glue residue on the front endpaper; c. 250 pages [each reproduced document has own original pagination, very good/ fine condition.

"The Martin Marprelate tracts" are the most famous pamphlets of the English Renaissance; to their contemporaries they were the most notorious. Printed in 1588 and 1589 on a secret press carted across the English countryside from one sympathetic household to another, the seven tracts attack the Church of England, particularly its bishops (hence the pseudonym, Mar-prelate), and advocate a Presbyterian system of church government. Scandalously witty, racy, and irreverent, the Marprelate tracts are the finest prose satires of their era. Their colloquial style and playfully self-dramatizing manner influenced the fiction and theatre of the Elizabethan Golden Age.

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