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Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of (1540-1614) A Defensative against the Poyson of Supposed Prophecies.
London: Printed by John Charlewood, servant to the right Honorable Philip Earle of Arundell, 1583, reprinted by W. Jaggard to be sold by Mathew Lownes, 1620.
Second edition, folio, title page printed within woodcut compartment decorated with interlocking knotwork designs (silked on verso, cropped at fore-edge, some losses to border restored); lacking first and final blanks (A1 & Tt4); bound in full modern calf ruled in gilt with gilt-tooled spine, rubbed, 10 3/4 x 7 in.
Howard's book against prophecy criticizes the authority of "old painted bookes, expositions of dreames, oracles, revelations, invocations of damned spirits, judicials of astrologie, or any other kinde of pretended knowledge whatsoever."
