[PAMPHLET - REFORMATION]
Supplicatie aen sijn hoocheyt ende heeren des Raets van State, overgegeven door de inwoonders deser Nederlanden welcke protesteren dat sy begeren te leven nae de Reformatie des Evangeliums. Den xxii dach junii, 1578.
[Antwerp, Christopher Plantin?, 1578]. 4to. With a vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page, and a decorated woodcut initial. 18th-century gold- and blind-tooled mottled and polished calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label lettered in gold in the second compartment, the date of publication lettered in gold in the third compartment, fleurons in the other compartments, a blind-tooled border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled end papers. [2], XXII pp.
€ 2,500
John of Austria (1547-1578) had become the governor-general of the Low Countries in 1577. He conquered Namur and charged Antwerp, forcing the protestants and their leader, William of Orange, to retreat. This pamphlet was published soon after, asking for religious freedom, arguing that two different religions are very capable of coexisting peacefully in one state. The work was published in French in the same year, titled Requeste presentee a son alteze et Messeigneurs du conseil d'estat par les inhabitants des Païs Bas.
With the bookplate of P.P.C Lammens and one with monogram and motto "Labor omnia vincit improbus" mounted on the front pastedown, a later ownership annotation ("Biblioth[eca] GG. De Servais") on the verso of the first free flyleaf. The spine is somewhat rubbed, the head of the spine has been bumped. The work has been bound with 24 blank leaves/ Otherwise in good condition. Belg. Typ. 4443; Knuttel 363; STCN 110801512; Tiele, Pamfletten 177; USTC 411120 or 421800.
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