SLEIDANUS, JOHANNES. A Famouse Cronicle of oure time, called Sleidanes Commentaries, concerning the state of Religion and common wealth, during the raigne of the Emperour Charles the fift. [5] (of [6]), 444, 449-70, [17] (of [18]) leaves; lacks the blanks A6 and 3Q4. Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 269x182 mm, 17th-century mottled calf gilt, lettering piece chipped, recased, endpapers renewed; title soiled with few ink blots and scored inscription at top, scattered marginal dampstains and ink blots, few marginalia, blank lower margin of 2T3 restored, clean tear in 3N1. Purchase inscription of John Levitt dated 1594 on A3v. (London: John Daye for Abraham Veale and Nicholas England, 25 September 1560)