[Whittingham (William)] A Brieff Discours off the Troubles begonne at Franckford in Germany, printed in black letter, title cropped, laid down and with inner margin and one corner renewed, lacking final blank leaf, A2 frayed at fore edge and with some marginal repairs, A3 holed with slight loss of text recto and verso, foxing, browning and some soiling, later blue half roan, rubbed, upper joint weak and head of spine pulling, [STC 25443], 4to, [Heidelberg, Printed by Michael Schirat], 1575.

⁂ Rare at auction. "Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, Whittingham became a Protestant and Reformed Churchman; as such, it was necessary to flee England when Mary I ascended the throne and initiated her policies of hostility and persecutions against Reformed Churchmen. By 1554, Whittingham made his way to Frankfurt, Germany, where he joined a group of Protestant exiles from Mary's reign. There, he met John Knox and became a supporter of Reformed Theology, a force that would inform and shape later Elizabethan divines. (This would later be pushed back by Laudian forces of anti-Calvinism in the 17th century.) He also married the sister of John Calvin. He took over Knox's role as established, ordained and recognised minister to the English congregation of exiles in Geneva. In Geneva, he started the work for which he is best remembered, a Bible translation that came to be known as the Geneva Bible. In 1560, Whittingham returned to England, and was made Dean of Durham in 1563, an office he held at his death in 1579." (DNB)