ABSTRACT
AONG the last few volumes published by Thomas Thomas, first printer to the University of Cambridge, is a small manual on the catechism: Zacharias Ursinus, Explicationum catecheticarum editio altera (8°, 1587).1 It issued from the press a year and some months before Thomas's death in August 1588. The book assumes a very modest place among Elizabethan books in divinity. Printed on 'demy' paper (then of foolscap size), it is little more than 6 inches tall.2 Yet books of small stature may contain wonders.
