77/2238 Calvin, J. Institutionum Christianae religionis libri quatuor. (...) Praemissa est Vita ejusdem Calvini, Authore Theodoro Beza. Leyden, F. Hackius, 1654, (40),544,54p., engr. title-vignette, contemp. overlapping panelled vellum w. gilt coat of arms of The Hague and corner fleurons on both covers, and w. mor. letterpiece, folio.

- Lacks schoolprize; library tickets on pastedowns and backstrip; later annot. and stamp on first textleaf; lower pastedown partly reattached w. tape; occas. (sl.) stained/ foxed; partly trifle wormholed in upper left margin. Coat of arms faded; upper hinge split at top and foot of spine; lower outer corner dam.; vellum frayed; lacks ties.

= Schoolprize binding of The Hague. Spoelder 1 only lists one early example of a prize-binding (on a sm. 8vo binding, located in Trinity College, Cambridge, prize dated 1657), and lists no early instance on a folio-size binding. Willems 741 note ("magnifique édition (...) mais ils [= this and two other Leyden editions] ne contiennent pas l'épître dédicatoire des Elzevier"); Erichson, p.50.