Calvin (John) & Norton (Thomas, translator), The Institu...

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£300 - £500

Calvin (John) & Norton (Thomas, translator), The Institution of Christian Religion [...], fourth English edition, London: Imprinted [...] by Thomas Vautrollier for William Norton, 1578, title-page with printer's device, final leaf with mask and printer's monogram, tables in double-column, original front blank, [xvi], 634, [107]ff; i.e. signatures collating: *⁸, ²*⁸, A-⁴Z⁸, ⁵A⁶, passages underlined or marked in places in a contemporary or contemporaneous hand, title-page somewhat tatty, with slight shaved loss to the opening 'THE' and washed contemporary or contemporaneous manuscript, first four leaves with small worm trail to lower margin, signatures 2P-3K with minor worm holes through lower-right margin, never affecting letters, final leaf (i.e. ⁵A6) transposed and rebound in between ⁴Z8 & ⁵A1, the final three leaves repaired, running title occasionally affected by shaving, but never drastic nor with loss of sense, some toning and minor marks in places, infrequent and occasional creases and very slight chips, bound in 20th c polished calf gilt by J. Henderson, stamped, five-compartment spine of raised bands, lettered in the second, third and fifth, sunned back, bands somewhat rubbed, 8vo

Provenance: 1) Sam. Walker, 1793 ~; ink MS inscription to verso of front original blank; 2) nearly 300 years old. J.H., 19th c title-page inscription.