A declaration of the masse : the fruyte therof the cause [and] the meane, wherfore and howe it oughte to be maynteyned : newely perused and augmented by the fyrst author therof, Mayster Anthony Marcort at Geneue : translated newly out of Frenche into Englyshe

Marcourt, Antoine de, -approximately 1560, Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571, attributed name, Vingle, Pierre de, attributed name, Day, John, 1522-1584, printer · 1547 · [Printed at Wyttenberge [i.e. London] : By Hans Luft [i.e. J. Day]] · 1 picture

A 1547 English translation of Antoine de Marcourt's Protestant treatise against the Mass, printed under a false Wittenberg imprint (really London, by John Day) and aimed at Reformation readers of religious controversy. The single picture is a letterpress page opening with a large decorated initial W beside a black-letter text block, with ornamental scrollwork filling the initial's frame, so a designer could take from it the dense hierarchy of a historic initial set against justified text.

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