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FOXE'S BOOK OF MARTYRS FOXE, JOHN. Actes and Monuments of Matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church . . . from the primitive age to these latter tymes of ours. 2 woodcut plates (lower portion of both torn and restored with image loss); Volume 2 title within woodcut historiated border; numerous woodcut text illustrations. Mostly printed in black letter. 2 volumes in 3. Folio, 348x232 mm, old boards, modern calf backs with morocco lettering pieces; contents toned and soiled with occasional early marginalia, marginal restoration or repairs on approximately 100 leaves with varying text loss, dampstaining in first half of Volume 3 with paper corrosion along lower portion of fore edges; Volume 1 lacks title, next 11 preliminaries, and final blank, Volume 2 lacks one of the 2 gatherings signed 3H1-6, and Volume 3 lacks last 6 leaves of index. (London: John Daye, 1583)
Fourth edition of Foxe's huge martyrology, "one of the most widely read, popular, and influential works of the Elizabethan Age" (DLB), written with a strong anti-Catholic bias and emphasizing in particular the persecution of English Protestants under Queen Mary I. STC 11225.
