8vo. viii, 864pp. Contemporary prize binding, gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, gilt supra libros of the Forest School to upper board, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, inked prize inscription to front blank fly-leaf.

A handsome copy of Bishop of Winchester Edward Harold Browne's (1811-1891) popular, exhaustive, ecclesiastical history of the Thirty-nine Articles, the defining statements of doctrines and practices of the Church of England with respect to the controversies of the English Reformation; first decreed after the convocation of 1562 and finalised in 1571, and thereafter incorporated into the Book of Common Prayer.