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HEIDELBERG CATECHISM-- A Catechisme, or shor[t] Kind of Instruction whereby to teach Children, and ignoranter sort, the Christian Religion. Whereunto is prefixed a learned Treatise. Oxford: by Joseph Barnes, 1588.
8° (147 x 99mm.). Woodcut device on title (lacks last ? blank leaf, title torn with loss and laid down, first six and last last five leaves with small wormholes, some leaves with margins strengthened, margins trimmed occasionally touching headlines or marginal notes, some leaves soiled). Modern calf. Provenance: contemporary inscription on head of p.255 'Vide Calvin his catechisme'; J. Smith (stamp on a few pages).
Translated by John Seddon with a preface by Thomas Sparke, this is the 274-page reprint of the 4° edition of the same year; STC 13031; Madan I p.26.
8° (147 x 99mm.). Woodcut device on title (lacks last ? blank leaf, title torn with loss and laid down, first six and last last five leaves with small wormholes, some leaves with margins strengthened, margins trimmed occasionally touching headlines or marginal notes, some leaves soiled). Modern calf. Provenance: contemporary inscription on head of p.255 'Vide Calvin his catechisme'; J. Smith (stamp on a few pages).
Translated by John Seddon with a preface by Thomas Sparke, this is the 274-page reprint of the 4° edition of the same year; STC 13031; Madan I p.26.