A Supplicacyon for the Beggars

Item Details

London [Chiswick], William Pickering, 1845, Quarter leather

Fine

First edition thus, a reprint of the original 1524 edition.

12mo. [2] [28] pp. 4.5 x 7 inches. Original quarter leather with gilt lettered spine, red/purple paper over boards. Rubbing to spine hinges, head and tail, and corners. Front pastedown/free flyleaf starting to separate at hinge. Interior is fine. See images for condition.

From an internet source: "A scarce reprint of the suppressed edition of 1524, reprinted by William Pickering "on account of its historical importance". Two auction records note that the Pickering edition was limited to 100 copies. OCLC locates only three copies."

From Wikipedia concerning the author and original 1524 edition: "Simon Fish (died 1531) was a 16th-century Protestant rebel and English propagandist. He is best known for helping to spread William Tyndale's New Testament and for writing the vehemently anti-clerical pamphlet Supplication for the Beggars (A Supplycacion for the Beggars) which the Roman Catholic Church condemned as heretical on 24 May 1530. His pamphlet can be seen as a precursor to the English Reformation and the Protestant Reformation. Fish was eventually arrested in London on charges of heresy, but he was stricken with bubonic plague and died before he could stand trial...Fish wrote his incendiary pamphlet Supplication for the Beggars during his second exile in Antwerp. The 16-page pamphlet accused the Roman Catholic Church of everything from avarice to murder to treason...  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fish