Featley/[aka Fairclough] (Daniel, Doctor in Divinity), The R...
Hammer
£280
Featley/[aka Fairclough] (Daniel, Doctor in Divinity), The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in His Owne (sic) Net. Or, A True Relation of the Protestant Conference and Popish Difference [...], four parts in one, second edition, first edition thus, London: Printed by H.L. for Robert Milbourne, 1624, black-ruled, historiated initials, ornamental head- and tailpieces, extra-illustrated with a slightly later 1645 portrait of the author engraved by William Marshall (trimmed, upper-margin with loss), annotated verso with slightly later manuscript, rubricated title, black-ruled divisional titles, the last with printer's device, complete, collating: [xxii], 46, [2] (blank), 55, [1] (blank), 50, 176; [xii], 112; [113]-149, [1] (blank); [151]-191pp, [2]ff contemporaneous MS appendix, inscribed recto only, a broad-margined copy, some contemporary & contemporaneous minor annotation and glosses, the final eighth of the book with faint water-staining to upper and fore-margin, but OK, the last five leaves' fore-margins a trifle tatty, late 19th c brown morocco, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt, rubbed and bumped, upper-joints just split, but light and holding, 4to
Hammer
£280
Featley/[aka Fairclough] (Daniel, Doctor in Divinity), The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in His Owne (sic) Net. Or, A True Relation of the Protestant Conference and Popish Difference [...], four parts in one, second edition, first edition thus, London: Printed by H.L. for Robert Milbourne, 1624, black-ruled, historiated initials, ornamental head- and tailpieces, extra-illustrated with a slightly later 1645 portrait of the author engraved by William Marshall (trimmed, upper-margin with loss), annotated verso with slightly later manuscript, rubricated title, black-ruled divisional titles, the last with printer's device, complete, collating: [xxii], 46, [2] (blank), 55, [1] (blank), 50, 176; [xii], 112; [113]-149, [1] (blank); [151]-191pp, [2]ff contemporaneous MS appendix, inscribed recto only, a broad-margined copy, some contemporary & contemporaneous minor annotation and glosses, the final eighth of the book with faint water-staining to upper and fore-margin, but OK, the last five leaves' fore-margins a trifle tatty, late 19th c brown morocco, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt, rubbed and bumped, upper-joints just split, but light and holding, 4to