REFORMATION, THE VESTMENTS CONTROVERSY – The Fortresse of Fathers. [Emden: Egidius van der Erve], 1566.
First and only edition of ‘probably the most aggressive published piece of nonconformist polemic elicited by the vestiarian controversy’ (Gunther, Reformation Unbound). ESTC S101361; Karl Gunter. Reformation Unbound: Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525–1590. Cambridge: CUP, 2014.
Octavo (141 x 189mm). (Title lightly browned, lacking the probable blank E2). 19th-century blue morocco. Provenance: M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Library; inscription dated 1863. Bookplate of Rugby School Library.
REFORMATION, THE VESTMENTS CONTROVERSY – The Fortresse of Fathers. [Emden: Egidius van der Erve], 1566.
First and only edition of ‘probably the most aggressive published piece of nonconformist polemic elicited by the vestiarian controversy’ (Gunther, Reformation Unbound). ESTC S101361; Karl Gunter. Reformation Unbound: Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525–1590. Cambridge: CUP, 2014.
Octavo (141 x 189mm). (Title lightly browned, lacking the probable blank E2). 19th-century blue morocco. Provenance: M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Library; inscription dated 1863. Bookplate of Rugby School Library.
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