NICKERSON, HOFFMAN. — The Loss of Unity.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson,1961. 0. 1st ed. "The author, an American historian who assisted the then Lord Halifax in his negotiations with Cardinal Mercier, traces the Sixteenth Century causes and events which ended by bringing about the existing religious disunity in the West..The author not only gives a succinct account of the political events that led to a permanent split, not originally intended by either Luther or Henry VIII, but also analyses the part played by the religious disputes in the general course of European history." Pp.8/360. Blue cloth, dustwrapper discoloured to spine and spotted to edges. VG/G+.