Lot 1357 , Perkins, William - An Exposition of the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles. According to the Tenour of the Scriptures, and the Consent of Orthodoxe Fathers of the Church ... First Edition. engraved title device, head and t

° Perkins, William - An Exposition of the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles. According to the Tenour of the Scriptures, and the Consent of Orthodoxe Fathers of the Church ... First Edition. engraved title device, head and tailpiece decorations, decorated initial letters; (8), 544pp. and faultes amended leaf; contemp. vellum, 8vo. Cambridge: printed by John Legatte Printer to the Universite of Cambridge, 1595. And to be solde at the signe of the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard in London. * John Legate, the second Cambridge University printer, being appointed in 1588; he printed the first Cambridge Bible (in 1591, a Geneva octavo), and also most of this author's books. William Perkins (1558-1602) was a leading and highly influential Puritan theologian (fellow of Christ's College) and cleric, whilst remaining a supporter of the reformed Church of England under its Elizabethan Settlement
£600-900

Condition:
Unlettered bndg. 'cockled', front inner joint cracked open, title stains and lt. elsewhere - but gen. good, some mispagination (but complete, ie. 542pp.); signatures q4, A-Z Aa-Ll8 (pagination 35/36 not used); ownership at front - Mary Bilton, 1756; closely written page of notes at end (?1600); Margaret Lutton ownership final leaf (?18th cent.) No table issued with the first edition.