Pighius, Albertus

folio (305 x 190mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, contemporary Spanish calf panelled in blind with a bishop's arms and two small dophin stamps in central compartment, metal corners, lettered horizontally along foredge with inventory number at head of foredge, a few leaves with deckle edges, a few annotations in ink, a few small tears in gutter in first quire, small marginal wormhole in last few leaves, joints slightly cracked, lacking both clasps with repairs at edge of upper cover

C.J. Stewart, London, bookseller's label on inside front cover; The Law Society, armorial bookplate

Mendham P161; VD16 P2756

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Dedicated to Paul III, one of his former pupils, Pighius's treatise is a response to Henry VIII's separation from the Church of Rome, first published in 1538, the year that Paul III excommunicated Henry.

The dolphin stamp seems to be identical with that on a Spanish binding in the British Library, Davis 657, and plate XXIV in Encuadernaciones Españolas shows a binding from Alcalá on a book dated 1564 which is very similar in design.