Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church : with an universal history of the same. Wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Now again, as it was recognized, perused, and recommended to the studious reader, by the author, Mr. John Fox. Whereunto are annexed certain additions of like persecutions which have happened in these later times. To which also is added the life of the author both in Latine and English.
John Foxe (1516-1587)
Category
Books
Date
1684
Materials
Book with Morocco, gilt tooling and gilt edged binding.
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3020338
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ([124], 895, [1]; [2], 551, [1], 131, [1]; [2], 959, [45]) p., [5] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill. ; fol. Additional plate bound in as frontispiece (port.) in vol. 2. Pencil number on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "1684". Bookseller's pencil notes on front free endpaper in vol. 1: "with the series of plates"; "remarkably fine copy in a most elaborate morocco binding"; "3 vols £16-10-0". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] in all vols. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown in vol. 1: 'J. Leslie, 58, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields London. Libraries purchased.'. Binding: Nineteenth-century full black morocco; elaborately gilt rolled borders; sewn onto five recessed cords; five false bands; spines gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Fox's Acts & monuments of the Church. I[-III].'; triple gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso (all vols.): 'Bound by J. Mackenzie & Son'.
Makers and roles
John Foxe (1516-1587), author