[Rarebooks] FS: 1st English translation of Calvin's commentary on Romans. London: 1583

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Calvin, John. A COMMENTARIE UPON THE EPISTLE OF SAINT PAUL TO THE ROMANES, Written in Latine by M. John Calvin, and Newly Translated into English by Christopher Rosdell... London: [Thomas Dawson] For John Harison and Georg Bishop. 1583. Sm. 4to. First edition in English. (28),202,(16)pp. Title within a woodcut border. An old repair to the title page which affects the woodcut border at the inner margin (no loss of text). Later vellum, rebacked, with backstrip laid back down. Morocco spine label.       $3,000.00 (trade discount allowed)

Very scarce first English edition of Calvin's commentary on Romans. No copy at auction in the current ABPC database. STC 4399.
 

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