An abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church . written by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie, haue not the vse of so necessary an history.
John Foxe (1516-1587)
Category
Books
Date
1589
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3145563
Summary
Bibliographic description
[14], 504, 288, [64] p. ; 4to. Imperfect: copy lacks quires RR-ZZ. Provenance: seventeenth? century manuscript inscription "Guilhelmj Fenner liber pret 3s - 4d" on title page; manuscript inscription "Pastor impostor" in the same hand captioning vignette on title page. Seventeenth? century manuscript inscription "343", possibly a previous shelfmark, on front pastedown. Sixteenth/seventeenth century manuscript annotations, now illegible, on front pastedown. Sixteenth/seventeenth century manuscript inscription "First the crosse, and then the crowne" at foot of leaf [par.]8r. Manuscript marginal annotations and underscoring in red crayon throughout. Binding: late sixteenth/early seventeenth century calf; blind tooled centrepiece; evidence of clasps at fore-edges of boards.
Makers and roles
John Foxe (1516-1587)