HADDON, Walter. Poematum Gvalteri Haddoni, Legum Doctoris, Sparsim Collectorum, Libri Duo. London: Richard Yardley and Peter Short, 1592. Small 8vo (146 x 78mm.) Engraved device to title-page, Roman and italic letter. (Occasional soiling, corner creases throughout, lacking blanks?) Near contemporary sewn wrappers (creasing, minor soiling, near contemporary manuscript notes verso the wrappers). Note: first edition was published in 1567. Walter Haddon served under three monarchs, including Queen Elizabeth I, for whom he wrote a reply to Jerome Osorio da Fonesco, the Portuguese historian and priest who had exhorted Elizabeth to return to the Catholic church. This, and Haddon's reply, became known as the most significant religious polemical exchange in the second half of the sixteenth century. Haddon is less known for his lyrical Latinate poetry.