Hoby, Sir Edward

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

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Description

A Counter-Snarle for Ishmael Rabshacheh, a Cecropidan Lycaonite. London: Printed [by G. Eld and Thomas Snodham] for Nath. Butter, 1613
Paper, Ink, Leather

4to (6 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.; 172 x 123 mm). Title within double-ruled border, text within ruled border with marginal columns for printed side-notes, woodcut headpiece and initials (some historiated). Nineteenth-century polished biscuit calf paneled gilt, gilt dentelles, spine gilt, two black lettering pieces; joints rubbed, upper joint starting at head of spine.

Literature

STC 13539; ESTC S104126

Catalogue Note

First edition, without the errata on A2v, being a reply to John Floyd's The Overthrow of the Protestants Pulpit-Babels (St. Omer, 1612).