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
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3061707
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. Pencil “381/3” on vol. 1 front pastedown. Seventeenth-century pencil notes in margin in vol.1, p. 489; seventeenth-century pencil sums on vol. 1 back pastedown. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled, polished sheep over boards on six raised cords; gilt spine tooling; red spine labels (mostly missing on vol. 2); remains of gilt roll on board edges; marbled edges.
Makers and roles
John Foxe (1516-1587), author