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, first edition in English, black letter, woodcut coat of arms on title, woodcut initials, lacking blanks A6 and 3Q4, light marginal browning, occasional minor marking or soiling, occasional small marginal worming, but a clean, crisp copy generally, first 4ff. detached, engraved portrait of the author to pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, upper cover detached, extremities repaired, [STC 19848], folio, [by Ihon Daye, for Abraham Veale, and Nicholas England], [1560].

⁂ An important record of The Reformation from one of the foremost printers of the period. It chronicles the reign of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and records the spread of Luther's ideology and other key events, including Henry VIII's break with Rome and the great conflict with the Turks.