A vindication of the rights of ecclesiastical authority: Being an answer to the first part of the Protestant reconciler

First edition. 12mo, in the original calf boards, professionally re-backed in near matching calf. The contents are complete, meeting collation: [28], 449, [1]pp. The book measures 12.5cm by 19.5cm. The binding is holding firmly and in good order, the boards rubbed to edges and bumped / abraded to corners. Textblock holding firmly, contents generally in good condition if toned, with some scattered browning and light foxing/handling marks, a few corners creased, some dustmarking to edges, occasional ink splats. Final leaf torn with loss in lower margin, with partial loss to three characters of letterpress. Title with old ink price at head. Original plain endpapers, gutters reinforced, various old ink and pencil inscriptions to upper and lower, with bookplates of Bishop Philpott's library Truro to upper pastedown. There is both the library bookplate and the original bookplate of Henry Phillpott, Bishop of Exeter. Conforms to Worldcat / OCLC: 5104762. Signatures: A8, [a]6, B-2F8 (+ 1 unsigned leaf after 2F8). OCLC states "Pagination error; page 388 misnumbered 368." in fact it was page 389 that was wrongly numbered, and in our copy has been corrected by hand. .…