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REFORMATION, THE VESTMENTS CONTROVERSY – The Fortresse of Fathers. [Emden: Egidius van der Erve], 1566.
First and only edition of ‘probably the most aggressive published piece of nonconformist polemic elicited by the vestiarian controversy’ (Gunther, Reformation Unbound). ESTC S101361; Karl Gunter. Reformation Unbound: Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525–1590. Cambridge: CUP, 2014.
Octavo (141 x 189mm). (Title lightly browned, lacking the probable blank E2). 19th-century blue morocco. Provenance: M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Library; inscription dated 1863. Bookplate of Rugby School Library.
First and only edition of ‘probably the most aggressive published piece of nonconformist polemic elicited by the vestiarian controversy’ (Gunther, Reformation Unbound). ESTC S101361; Karl Gunter. Reformation Unbound: Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525–1590. Cambridge: CUP, 2014.
Octavo (141 x 189mm). (Title lightly browned, lacking the probable blank E2). 19th-century blue morocco. Provenance: M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Library; inscription dated 1863. Bookplate of Rugby School Library.
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