Search Results: Authors starting with C from Dungeness Books

Description
The third edition in English. Title page (1579) within architectural border. Translated from the French by Arthur Golding, the first and second edition were printed in 1574. Text in two column Roman font. Woodcut initials throughout. Marginal cross references in italics. With an early recipe in manuscript on blank verso of **^8. Ends on colophon (1580). A very scarce edition with ESTC showing only four copies worldwide.
Collation
A^4, *^6, **^8, A-Y^8, Aa-Yy^8, Aaa-Ccc^8. Complete.
Binding
Bound in modern thin blue calf. Spine with four raised bands and a maroon label reading "John Calvin Sermons on the Book of Job." Plain endpapers. Front hinge starting and top quarter of front joint cracked but holding well. Lightly rubbed with bumped corners.
Condition
Text is generally clean and bright; bookplate to front pastedown; title page frayed to edges and laid down; A2 chipped to top edge; marginal dampstaining in front and back; small wormhole to inner column in first 30 or so leaves; small… Read More