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
Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
NT 3182746
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ([124], 895, [1]; [2], 551, [1], 131, [1]; [2], 959, [45]) p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Bookseller's ticket: Coombs & Oatridge, Worcester. Sale catalogue at rear of vol. 1, for 1641 ed. Inscription scribbled through on titlepage. $zInk text marking in vol. 2; pencil scribble at rear of vol. 3. Provenance: nineteenth-century round seal bookplate: "Thomas Bowater Vernon". Dated 1853. [i.e. Thomas Bowater Vernon (1832-1859)]. Inscribed above: TB Vernon / Hanbury Hall / July 3rd 1855. Vol. 2 has additional inscription: R. Birch Lilleshall[?] 1811. (Bookplate only vol. 3.) Binding: seventeenth-century reverse calf; blind tooled panels; six raised bands; gilt lettered red and green spine-labels: Fox's Martyrs. (Vol. 1 headband loose; Calf smooth on vol. 2, otherwise uniform).
Makers and roles
John Foxe (1516-1587)