Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WHITGIFT, JOHN, Archbishop of Canterbury. The Defense of the Aunswere to the Admonition, against the Replie of T[homas]. C[artwright]. Title within woodcut ornamental border. [24], 812, [11] pages, with cancel 2D2 and mounted cancel slips on R4r, Y1v, and Y6v. Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 266x185 mm, contemporary vellum boards with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, front joint cracked, cords intact, lacking catches and clasps; marginal soiling and dampstaining, early inscription and monograms on title, wormhole in gutter of last several leaves, free endpapers lacking. London: Henry Binneman for Humfrey Toye, 1574

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first edition of a refutation of the presbyterian views of the Puritan Thomas Cartwright, from an exchange of polemics provoked by Cartwright's 1572 Admonition to the Parliament, "an attack on the very foundations of the Elizabethan church so extreme as to make it a seditious libel" (ODNB). STC 25430.