A Survay Of The Pretended Holy Discipline Contayning The Beginninges Successe Parts Proceedings

by Richard Bancroft

$9,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

First edition

London: John Wolfe, 1593 . 193 x 145 mm. 7 5/8 x 5 3/4 . 4 p.l., 464 pp., 1 leaf lacking final blank . FIRST EDITION. Contemporary limp vellum, flat spine with faded ink titling, yapp edges, pastedowns lifting to reveal remnants of green silk ties. In a modern blue linen clamshell box. Printer's device on title page, woodcut initials. Front flyleaf with early ink signature of

• Binding: Leather

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