Author: Willet, Andrew.
Title: Synopsis papismi, that is, A generall view of papistrie: vvherein the vvhole mysterie of iniquitie, and summe of antichristian doctrine is set downe, which is maintained this day by the Synagogue of Rome, against the Church of Christ.
Description: London: Printed by John Haviland, and are to be sold by Robert Allot, 1634. 0. Hardcover. Folio. [46], 1352 [i.e. 1358], [36]pp. Signatures and pagination continuous. B5r is a separate title-page, with same imprint, reading: The first booke or centurie: wherein are handled these chiefe0 and principall controversies of the scriptures, the church, generall councels, the Pope, the clergy, monks, and the civill majestrate. 2L6r is a separate title-page, with imprint listing John Grismond and Robert Milbourne as additional booksellers, reading: The second booke or centurie, containing the second hundred of popish errors and heresies . 3C5r is a separate title-page, with same imprint as general title page, reading: The third booke or centurie, containing a third hundred of popish errors and heresies . 4C6r is a separate title-page (with imprint: London, printed by the assignes of Thomas Man, Paul Man, and Jonah Man, 1634), reading: The fourth booke or centurie, containing a fourth hundred of popish errors and heresies . 4Z3r is a separate title-page, with same imprint as general title-page, reading: The fifth booke or centurie, containing such controversies and questions of religion, as doe arise betweene the Protestants and Papists, about the nature of Christ: . 5O8r is a separate title-page, with same imprint as general title-page, reading: Tetrastylon papismi: that is, the foure principall pillars of papistrie . Collected as a necessarie supplement or fit appertinance to the authors former worke, intituled Synopsis papismi . Contemporary calf, very worn. Covers loose. With the frontispiece portrait, mounted. Part of frame missing, completed in ink. ESTC S123354; STC (2nd ed.), 25700a.5. ESTC records four editions printed in 1634; ESTC S123354 is the only one mentioning a portrait frontispiece. First few pages very worn. Book is stained throughout. Overall, a poor copy. Poor.

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