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FIRST EDITION. Folio. pp. [xxxvi], 592, [iv]; [iv], 74, [ii]. [[a]⁴ b⁶ c-d⁴ A-3D⁶, ²B-I⁴ ²K⁶.] first and last leaf blank. Roman letter with some Italic. Fine frontispiece portrait of the author within roundel signed T Cocksonus sculp , (Thomas Cockson), fine engraved t-p (Johnson Elstrack 24, Mr. Hind now says perhaps by Cockson ) the royal arms above with lion and unicorn, allegorical figures of Veritas on the left and Mendacia on the right, small hand with fishing net in roundel below, second title within ornate woodcut border, floriated woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces, typographical ornaments, contemporary autograph ex libris Geor. Olyphant on fly repeated at head of t-p and recto of portrait, book-label of A W G Lowther on pastedown. Light age yellowing, recto of portrait a little dusty, minor dust soiling at outer margins of first and last few leaves, rare marginal mark. A very good, entirely unsophisticated copy, crisp and clean in contemporary English calf, covers bordered with a double blind rule, spine with double blind ruled raised bands, a.e.r. A handsome, unsophisticated copy, of the first edition of the this interesting work by the Protestant controversialist Francis White, an account of his debates with the Jesuit theologian Fisher. Early in 1622 he was employed by James I as a disputant against John Fisher (1569 1641), to stay the Roman catholic tendencies of Mary, countess of Buckingham. He held two conferences; the third (24 May 1622) was entrusted to William Laud. White's Replie to Fisher . was dedicated to James I, whose copy is in the British Museum; it was reprinted by subscription, Dublin, 1824, 2 vols. 8vo. An account, from the other side, is in Trve Relations of Svndry Conferences, 1626, 4to, by A. C. . On 14 Sept. 1622 White was presented to the deanery of Carlisle. He took part, in conjunction with Daniel Featley or Fairclough, in another discussion with Fisher, opened on 27 June 1623, at the house of Sir Humphrey Lynde, in Sheer Lane, London; a report was published in The Fisher catched in his owne Net, 1623, 4to; and more fully (by Featley) in The Romish Fisher cavght and held in his owne Net, 1624, 4to. DNB. ESTC S122241. STC 25382. Milward 750. L2707. Seller Inventory # L2707
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