Sanders (Nicolas) De Origine ac Progressu Schismatis Anglicani Libri Tres, woodcut decoration to title, printer's device on last leaf, a few pagination errors but collated complete, scattered foxing, staining, and browning, cracking at gutter, a few ff. working loose, contemporary pigskin, ink annotation to lower cover, [USTC 854487], Rome, Bartolomeo Bonfadino, 1586; Les Trois livres..., first French edition, underlining, some spotting and browning, cracking at gutter to rear, later speckled sheep, spine in compartments with blind-stamped decorations, some loss to spine ends, small hole to lower cover, joints cracking but contents holding firm, [Adams S 293 & Brunet V 121], 1587, woodcut initials and decorations, ink inscriptions to title by an early hand, spines darkened, rubbed and bumped, 8vo (2)

⁂ The first mentioned includes substantial additions by Robert Persons, who oversaw its publication. It features the Diarium Turris—an anonymous account of imprisonment in the Tower of London (1580–85), now attributed to John Hart but long misattributed to Edward Rishton. Both works present a strongly Catholic view of the English Reformation, describing the break with Rome and the persecution of English Catholics.