Full title: Falsificationum Romanorum: et catholicarum restitutionum Tomi Primi Liber primus. Ad Ecclesiæ Catholicæ usum & honorem, & synagoge Romanæ iustum opprobrium, observavit & detexit W. Crashanius in Theologia Bacchal. & verbi divini […] apud Templ. Lond. Prædic. 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.

Small 4to. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [82], 160-161, [5]. P. 155 misprinted 157 (1st); p. 160 on verso of p. 157 (2nd), but text and signatures continuous. Signatures: ¶⁴ A⁶ B-2F⁴ 2G² (2G2 blank and genuine). Bound in 19^th-century green straight-grain morocco. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. 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, Printers' & publishers' devices in England & Scotland, 1485-1640. London, 1913, p. 164); English title page has ornament only.

Bound with Thomas James’s 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 (Oxford: John Lichfield and William Turner, 1625; only edition, see Bib# 5751511; W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, & K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2^nd 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).

First edition, first state of the sidenote on ¶3^r, listing only J. Hare and H. Hall, without adding Sir H. Montague and Sir J. Jackson. 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, &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 old bookes as the Authors wrote them, I produce the new ones as the Pope 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, & K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2^nd ed.), 6014; the English Short Title Catalogue online record copy (Harmsworth-Folger) is defective, and the entry does not record leaf Gg2 (blank).

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