[ PRINTED DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I ]JEWEL, JOHN...

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£200 - £300

[ PRINTED DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I ]

JEWEL, JOHN

CERTAINE SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE THE QUEENES MAIESTIE, AND AT PAULES CROSSE, BY THE REUEREND FATHER IOHN IEVVEL LATE BISHOP OF SALISBURIE

Imprinted at London, by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1583. First edition with leaf A1 ending in spelling 'guyded', bound without the second part 'Short Treatise of the Sacraments', and lacking leaf L1 of text. Collation is title + 3 leaves (Dedication) + 133 unnumbered leaves of text with final leaf of the Sermons ending 'FINIS'. The title page is within an elaborate woodcut border with some light strengthening to inner margin. Printed in English in Black Letter, the text is generally clean and fresh with light toning. Two leaves at the rear have short marginal tears not affecting the text. Attractively rebound in full panelled calf with new endpapers and housed in a wooden box with a transparent lid for viewing purposes. Rare