8vo. 334pp. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, recently rebacked to style, recent morocco lettering-piece. Boards rubbed. Near contemporary armorial bookplate of Earl Cornwallis and recent book-label of John Sparrow to FEP, paper flaw to first word of title, contemporary inked inscription to head of title-page ‘Rex Lex -6’, light damp-staining to head of all leaves, worming to margins throughout, very occasional contemporary inked highlighting.

A Continental printing of the works of Anglican theologian and Master of St John's College, Cambridge, William Whitaker (1547/8-1595); consisting of several lectures on the papacy, and controversies concerning the church, councils, and the sacraments of the Lord's supper and baptism. The collection was edited by his Whitaker's former tutee John Allenson (d.1619) and first published in Cambridge in 1599.