Harpsfield, Nicholas, and others

[HARPSFIELD, Nicholas]. Dialogi sex contra summi pontificatus, monasticae vitae, sanctorum, sacrarum imaginum oppugnatores, et pseudomartyres... Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1566, 8vo (223 x 165mm.), woodcut vignette on title, woodcut initials, folding plate depicting the grave of John Fenn, calf, spine gilt in compartments,  speckled edges, binding worn, lacking spine label, occasional worming, small loss to lower corner of S5, some very light soiling and damp-staining, repaired tear to folding plate, very occasional manuscript notes
CRUDELITATIS Calvinianae exempla duo recentissima ex Anglia. [Rheims: Jean Foigny], 1585, 8vo (155 x 100mm.), morocco gilt by MacKenzie, gilt edges, some rubbing and soiling to binding, some leaves closely trimmed

William O'Brien, bequest booklabels dated 1899; [2nd work]: Alexander Beresford Hope (1820-1887), sale, Sotheby's, 23 March 1882 (not found in catalogue); price £1.16

Allison & Rogers II.636 & II.1458

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Harpsfield's Dialogi sex "was nothing less than the detailed rebuttal of two of the greatest protestant historical works of the era, the Historia ecclesiae Christi, known as the Magdeburg Centuries, and John Foxe's Acts and Monuments" (ODNB). The work was written during Harpsfield's long incarceration for refusing to swear the oath of supremacy, and smuggled to his editor Alan Cope who arranged for its publication under his own name in Antwerp.