Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS.) Foxe, John. The New and Complete Book of Martyrs. 2 volumes. 31 plates--all 28 listed plates plus 3 others; folding frontispiece is silked with separations at folds. 4to, modern calf in period style; title page slightly soiled with inked catalogue numbers, foxing and browning, last page of Volume I defective with no loss of text, several leaves with short marginal tears and cello tape repairs; ex-library with faint inked stamp in Volume II. New York: William Durell, 1794

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first american edition. "First issued in forty numbers . . . not completed for several years following the publication of the first number"--Evans 26991.