Antony Francis Allison - The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation Between 1558 and 1640: Works in English with addenda and corrigenda to volume 1

First published 1994 by Ashgate Publishing

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Copyright 1994 A. F. Allison and D. M. Rogers

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-reformation Between 1558 and 1640; annotated Catalogue. - Vol. II
Works in English
I. Allison, A. F. II. Rogers, D. M.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Allison, Antony Francis.
The contemporary printed literature of the English Counter-Reformation between 1558 and 1640.

Revised and expanded version of: A catalogue of Catholic books in English printed abroad or secretly in England, 1558-1640.
Contents: v. I. Works in languages other than English with the collaboration of W. Lottes v. II. Works in English, with addenda & corrigenda to volume I.
1. Counter-Reformat ionEnglandBibliographyUnion lists. 2. EnglandChurch history16th centuryBibliographyUnion lists. 3. EnglandChurch history17th centuryBibliographyUnion lists. 4. BibliographyEarly printed books16th centuryUnion lists. 5. BibliographyEarly printed books17th centuryUnion lists. 6. Catalogs, UnionEngland. I. Rogers, D. M. (David Macgregor). II. Allison, Antony Francis. Catalogue of Catholic books in English printed abroad or secretly in England, 1558-1640. IV. Title
27830.A46 1989 [BXI492.A5-Z] 016.274206 88-39681

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Though the terms of reference of this volume remain practically identical with those of A&R , the arrangement of the contents now differs. In A&R we followed the practice, usual in bibliographies and library catalogues, of entering every book under the name of its author, when known. Translations of foreign works were placed under the foreign author and not under the English translator or editor. As we pointed out in our foreword to Volume I of the present work, such an arrangement in a catalogue intended as a survey of the literary output of the English Catholics had serious disadvantages. It meant that works by the same English Catholic writer could often become scattered throughout the catalogue and could only be linked by consulting the index of translators and editors at the end. For this reason, we abandoned that arrangement in Volume I and are doing so again here. To quote again from our previous foreword: Wherever possible, a book is entered under the name of the person, institution or group of people whose connection with it, as author, compiler, editor, translator or subject of study provides the justification for including it in the catalogue. The foreign author of a work entered under its English Catholic translator will be found in the general index at the end. Where there is no appropriate English heading, a book is entered in the manner described later in this foreword (see below: The Three Sections of the Catalogue). This re-arrangement has meant re-numbering the entries of A&R , but every entry now includes a cross-reference to the old number, and the general Concordance at the beginning of this volume (pp. xxvii-xxxv) enables anyone who knows a book only by its old number to find it easily under the new.

Defining our terms of reference in A&R , we wrote (p. iii): By Catholic we mean that the work, whatever its subject, was written by a Catholic; in effect, all but a mere handful are works of a religious character. Although the definition does not expressly require it, the few works of a mainly non-religious character included in the catalogue had, in every case, some connection with the English Counter-Reformation. For example, Richard Stanyhursts translation of Virgil ( A&R 865, this volume no. 728) contains at the end some poems of a religious nature by the translator. In the present volume, this connection, formerly de facto, becomes de jure. The subject may be defined as the printed material in English put out between 1558 and 1640, either for the spiritual benefit of the English Catholics, or in furtherance of the Catholic cause. The connection of a work with the Catholic cause may not always be obvious. For example, the relation of the Dutch massacre of English merchants at Amboyna in the East Indies, published in 1624 (this volume, no. 932) would seem at first sight to have no bearing at all on the Counter-Reformation, being, in fact, virtually a reprint of a non-Catholic political tract published in London the previous year. But the typography shows that this edition, which has no imprint, was printed at the press of the English Jesuits at Saint-Omer. The inference is that it was intended to stimulate anti-Dutch feeling among English Catholics at a time when the Protestant Northern Provinces were threatening to invade the South where so many English Catholic institutions were situated.