Calvin, Four Sermons, 1579

Foure Sermons of Maister Iohn Calvin, Entreating of matters very profitable for our time, as may bee seene by the pre-face: With a briefe exposition of the LXXXVII. Psalme. Translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Iohn Fielde. Imprinted at London for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater Noster Rowe, at the Signe of the Talbot. 1579.
 
Antique brown leather over boards, rebacked. Gold text and bands on spine. Corners bumped and chipped. Mild scuffing of boards. New end papers. Decorative title page. Clean bright, and tight throughout with well-retained margins.
 
Manicule^4, ***^2, A-G^8, H^4 (blank), lacking E7 which is supplied loose in smaller facsimile.
 
John Calvin (Jean Cauvin), 1509-1564, was a French reformer in Geneva. Calvin studied biblical languages and classical and Christian antiquity in Paris at the College Royal. His Institutes of the Christian Religion was first published in 1536 and has never been out of print. His reputation in exegesis remains strong, as demonstrated by the popularity of his commentaries on the Bible, often republished and translated. A major subset of Reformed Protestantism is eponymously called Calvinism. (See Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, vol 1).