Acts and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, . happening in the Church, with an universall historie 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 realme of England and Scotland. Now againe, as it was recognised, perused, and recommended to the studious reader, by the author, Mr. Iohn Fox, the eight time newly imprinted. Whereunto are annexed certaine additions of like persecutions, which have happened in these latter times.
John Foxe (1516-1587)
Category
Books
Date
1641
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 3086043
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v. ([128],1033,[1]; [42],788; [2],1030; [14],106, 105-106,[96]p., [1] folded plate . ill.. (woodcuts) . fol.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: Beaconsfield.. Binding: Nineteenth-century dark purple morocco, gilt and blind tooling on spine, blind fillet on covers, double gilt fillet on board edges and inners, remains of seventeenth-century red painted edges.
Makers and roles
John Foxe (1516-1587)