Small 4to (185 x 163 mm). Title-pages for each tract printed within double rule border, text printed within single rule border. (Lacking A quire, comprising: A1 blank, A2, general title, A3-4, "To the Reader." Some minor browning.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked, some light wear). Provenance: Evelyn Philip Shirley (1812-1882), British politician (armorial bookplate). 

FIRST EDITION, and the first appearance of three of the four tracts included herein: "An advertisement touching an holy warre," "An offer to our late soveraigne King James...", and "The history of the raigne of King Henry the Eighth." "Considerations touching a warre with Spaine" is a "corrupt and surreptitious edition" (editor's preface, not present in this copy). ESTC S100333; STC 1124.