This collection brings together facsimiles of twenty English sources printed between 1531 and 1648. Eleven of the works concerned have been reproduced in their entirety, while nine are represented by substantial excerpts. They have been selected in order to convey ‘the tremendous complexity and confusion that compelled early modern authors to participate in Anglican/dissenter debates over sexuality, marriage, and its breakdown’. Volume i contains three texts of 1531–3 concerned with Henry viii's repudiation of Catherine of Aragon, while volume ii is entirely devoted to The office and duetie of an husband, by Juan Luis Vives (1555, first published in Latin in 1529). Most of the remaining sixteen works or extracts are concerned with the grounds for divorce or dissolution of marriage, and with adultery in particular. Several of these writers advocated the penalty of death for adultery, which if enforced would have left an innocent partner free to remarry. The opinion that adultery was nevertheless a ground for divorce a vinculo, never adopted by the Church of England during the period covered by this collection, is here well represented in the works of various continental and English divines. Only Edmund Bunny's Of divorce for adulterie, and marrying againe (1613) trenchantly opposes this view. These are handsomely presented volumes usefully arranged and paginated. Sadly, however, the introduction, headnotes and textual notes are riddled with muddle, inaccuracy and straightforward mistakes, and undermined by substantial gaps in knowledge and understanding of the period covered. Mistranslations of quotations from Latin are frequent and sometimes compounded by misreading.