CRANMER (THOMAS) A Defence of the True and Catholike Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of Our Saviour Christ, black letter, title within historiated woodcut border, printer's device on colophon, several large decorative woodcut initials, title and following 4 leaves strengthened in upper margin (with some loss to printed border of title, and touching letters elsewhere), 4 leaves (ai-iv) with several lines of text cut and remounted, headline to final leaf of table shaved, old ink annotations on 9 pages, some damp-stains, early twentieth-century blind-stamped calf, spine tooled in gilt with morocco spine lael, g.e. [ESTC S109034; Pforzheimer 236], small 4to (175 x 135mm.), Renold Wolfe, 1550 One of three editions of Archbishop Cranmer's treatise on Catholicism printed in 1550. This edition has catchwords B4r "des", and S1r "before". Provenance: John Richardson, early ownership inscription ("liber Joannis Richardson, n.p.") on title, and at foot of p.117; John Child, bookplate; by descent to present owner.