A Treatise Concerning the Right Use of the Fathers in the Decision of Controversies Existing at This Day in Religion by Jean Daille
1651. No edition remarks. No dust jacket. Quarter bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards. Front board detached. Title page is missing, but title, author, publisher and year believed to be correct due to contents and pagination. Two sections paginated separately: 163 and 195pp. Pages are moderately tanned. Notable cracking to gutters and rear hinge, board is mildly loose. Moderate water staining to pages throughout. Visible thumb-marking present. First page is mildly loose. Mild insect damage to rear pages. Pencil inscription to rear board. Mild pencil annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Several pages detached but present. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with splitting and loss to corners, heavily split spine, and heavy rub wear all over. Heavy cracking to rear joint. Heavy scuffing to edges. Notable peeling to boards. Some loss to spine ends.