A Defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande, Conteining an Answeare to a Certaine Booke Lately Set Forthe by M. Hardinge, and Entituled, A Confutation of &c., FIRST EDITION, issue with "foorthe" spelling in line 4 of title-page, black and roman letter, large woodcut device on title, lacks final leaf of index (3R6), dampstaining (mostly marginal) from p.243 to end, thin worm trail to pp.367-374, small rust hole to 3 leaves, title tipped onto endpaper, repair with small loss of text to one preliminary leaf, early ink marginalia, underlining or pointing hands to approximately 16 pages, long ?nineteenth century note about Jewel on blank verso of title, contemporary English calf by the Morocco Binder, covers with gilt fillet roll-tool border, foliate cornerpieces, oval strapwork centrepiece in a semis of small flowers with 4 medallion portraits (Plato, Marcus Cato, Xenocrates, and Marcus Tullius Cicero), flat spine tooled with alternate star and foliate bands, restored at extremities of spine and corners, rubbed [ESTC S112182], folio (289 x 195mm.), Henry Wykes, 1567