Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
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. extra-illustrated with 16 engraved portaits from an unidentified edition of Gilbert Burnet's History of the Reformation of the Church of England. [60], 895, [1]; [2], 551, [1], 131, [109]; [2], 959 pages. 3 volumes. Folio, 433x274 mm, later 18th-century russia, rebacked; occasional toning or browning, scattered foxing and minor stains or rust spots, corners torn off a few leaves with minimal text loss, double-page plate between pages 36 and 37 in Volume 1 partly separated along center crease, double-page plate between pages 884 and 885 rehinged with repair on verso. Bookplates of Adolphus William Ward. wide-margined set. London: Company of Stationers, 1684

Additional Details

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.