Lot 129
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WHITGIFT, John (1530?-1604). The Defense of the Aunswere to the Admonition, against the Replie of T.C. London: Henry Bynneman, 1574. 2° (271 x 176mm). Black letter, title within woodcut border (same leaf rather soiled, small wormhole in the text in the first 3 leaves, blank fore-corner of last leaf torn away and crudely repaired, some browning and discolouration). 17th-century calf (slightly worn, head and foot of spine defective). Provenance: Will Waterson (18th-century signature on title).
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WHITGIFT, John (1530?-1604). The Defense of the Aunswere to the Admonition, against the Replie of T.C. London: Henry Bynneman, 1574. 2° (271 x 176mm). Black letter, title within woodcut border (same leaf rather soiled, small wormhole in the text in the first 3 leaves, blank fore-corner of last leaf torn away and crudely repaired, some browning and discolouration). 17th-century calf (slightly worn, head and foot of spine defective). Provenance: Will Waterson (18th-century signature on title).

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WHITGIFT, John (1530?-1604). The Defense of the Aunswere to the Admonition, against the Replie of T.C. London: Henry Bynneman, 1574. 2° (271 x 176mm). Black letter, title within woodcut border (same leaf rather soiled, small wormhole in the text in the first 3 leaves, blank fore-corner of last leaf torn away and crudely repaired, some browning and discolouration). 17th-century calf (slightly worn, head and foot of spine defective). Provenance: Will Waterson (18th-century signature on title).

Second edition, printed in the same year as the first, of the future Archbishop of Canterbury's reply to Thomas Cartwright's defence against Whitgift's An Answere to a Certen Libel, 1572. STC 25430.
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