A Declaration of the ten holy cōmaunde mentes of allmygthye God, wro ten Exo. 20. Deu. 5. Collectyd out of the scripture Ca nonicall, by Joan ne Hopper. Cum, and se: Joan. 1. Anno M.D.XLVIII'. [Title page to the edition of 1548.] [The date on the title page is 1548, but the preface is dated Nov. 5, 1549.] A Decla ration of the x. holye commaunde ments of Almighty God written Ero. ff. Deu. v. Collected oute of the scrip ture Canonicall, by John Houper, with certayne new addicions made by the same maister Houper. Cum, and se: John. i. Anno. M.D.L. [Title page to the edition of 15502.] [There appears to have been more than one impression of this date.] A Declaration of the X holie commaundements of Almightie God written Exod. 20. Deut. 5. COLLECTED out of the scripture cano nicall, by John Houper, with certaine new additions made by the same Mai ster Houper. Come and see: John, 1. AT LONDON; Imprinted by Robert mas Woodcocke. [Title page to the edition of 15881.] [This is said to be the date of it, but perhaps without sufficient authority. The book itself has no date.] [In preparing the Declaration of the Ten Holy Commandments for the press, the foreign edition of 1548, that of (Richard Jugge) London, 1550, and the later edition "imprinted at London by Robert Walde-grave, for Thomas Woodcocke,” (1588,) have been carefully collated. The second named of these three old editions seems to be in general an exact reprint of the edition of 1548; except that in the seventh commandment some additional matter is given, and at the close of the treatise a few sentences relating to the difficulty experienced in printing an English treatise at a foreign press, are omitted. The edition of 1588 appears to be nearly a reprint of the former editions, with the addition of marginal notes and references. 1 The text of the rare edition of 1550 has been followed in this reprint, as being that which received Hooper's own corrections and additions. Occasionally the readings in the foreign edition have been adopted, where they were evidently more correct, and the marginal notes and texts in the margin have been added from the edition of 1588. References will be made to the different editions by the letters A, B, C, in the order above given.] ["The date is a misprint, especially as the Epistle unto the Chrystiane Reader' is dated 5 Novembris Anno M.D.XLIX. in this as in (the) two other editions." Lowndes.] |