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KNOX, John (1505-1572). An answer to a great nomber of blasphemous cavillations. [Geneva]: John Crespin, 1560.
First edition of an impassioned defence of Calvin and the doctrine of predestination, written at Geneva in 1558. STC 15060.
Octavo (154 x 96mm). With a mounted portrait of the author inserted facing the title, woodcut title device, errata leaf (a few small marginal holes, C6 chipped affecting 2 letters, a couple of headlines trimmed). Contemporary red russia (rebacked and corners repaired, lightly rubbed). Provenance: inscription on title -- George Chalmers (1742-1825, Scottish antiquarian and scholar; bookplate).
First edition of an impassioned defence of Calvin and the doctrine of predestination, written at Geneva in 1558. STC 15060.
Octavo (154 x 96mm). With a mounted portrait of the author inserted facing the title, woodcut title device, errata leaf (a few small marginal holes, C6 chipped affecting 2 letters, a couple of headlines trimmed). Contemporary red russia (rebacked and corners repaired, lightly rubbed). Provenance: inscription on title -- George Chalmers (1742-1825, Scottish antiquarian and scholar; bookplate).
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