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HORMAN, William (d. 1535). Vnlgaria [sic]. London: Wynkyn de Worde 1530.
HORMAN, William (d. 1535). Vnlgaria [sic]. London: Wynkyn de Worde 1530. 4° (188 x 133mm). Text in Latin and English. Title within woodcut compartments, woodcut initials, verso of final leaf with printer's device [McKerrow 21]. (Title soiled, mainly marginal staining in inner gutter at beginning, inner margin of gathering B strengthened, just touching text on B1v, small wormhole throughout, becoming 2-3 small ones towards the end, mainly light spotting and soiling throughout.) Modern old-style calf, ruled in blind (new endpapers). Provenance : S. A. Thompson Yates (bookplate) – Manuscript letter to Thompson Yates, dated 1 March 1900, regarding the book (tipped-in between pastedown and blank). Second edition of Horman's Vulgaria . As a young man, the author was successively headmaster of Eton and Winchester. Returning to Eton as a fellow in 1502, he spent the rest of his life there, becoming vice-provost in later years and bequeathing the college eighteen items from his library. Although the Tudor bibliographer, John Bale, credits him with twenty-nine works on Latin literature, history, medicine, and theology, as well as a Latin elegy on William Lily, he published only four titles. His Vulgaria was first printed by Richard Pynson in 1519, and forms an encylopaedic collection of sentences arranged in chapters. Covering religion, manners, learning, domestic life, and recreations, the work 'provides an admirable survey of the culture of early Tudor England' ( ODNB ). STC 13812.