Calvin (John) A Commentarie of Iohn Caluine, vpon the first booke of Moses called Genesis, translated by Thomas Tymme, first edition in English, title within woodcut architectural border, half-page woodcut map to E1, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, final verso with large woodcut printer's device, lacking blanks ¶8 and 3M8, title trimmed and neatly window-mounted on stub, I2-I7 repairs to outer margin, affecting printed side-notes, 2Q8 torn and repaired with loss of text, occasional wormholes / trace to inner gutters, just touching text on the odd f. on sigs. S-U, stained, some spotting, lightly browned, [STC 4393], [By Henry Middleton] for Iohn Harison and George Bishop, 1578 bound with Calvin (John), A commentarie of M. Iohn Caluine, vpon the booke of Iosue, finished a little before his death: Translated out of Latine into Englishe by W.F., translated by ?William Fulke, title and small woodcut ornament within woodcut typographic border, large woodcut historiated initials, worm trace to some inner gutters, some water-staining, mostly marginal, occasional spotting, lightly browned, [STC 4394], [By Thomas Dawson] for George Bishop, 1578, together 2 works in 1 vol., trimmed at head, affecting the odd headline, 19th century half calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, corners little worn, rubbed, small 4to (the first work in 8s)

⁂ Provenance: 'Wm. Herbert' (17th century ink inscription to front free endpaper); Wm. Bateman, F.A.S., of Middleton, Derby (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown).