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FOXE, JOHN. Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable, happening in the Church . . . from the Primitive Age to these Later Times of Ours. Engraved portrait of the author; 4 engraved plates; text illustrations throughout. [124], 895, [1]; [2], 551, [1], 131, [1]; [2], 959, [45] pages. 3 volumes. Folio, 389x237 mm, 19th-century blind-stamped calf in period style by Clarke & Bedford, front joints starting, small stain on Volume 1 spine; contents generally clean; marbled edges. handsome set. London: Company of Stationers, 1684
Ninth edition of Foxe's huge 1563 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. Wing F2036. With the armorial bookplates of Thomas Penn (1702-75), son of William Penn and proprietor of Pennsylvania, on verso of titles.
