1814 FOXE BOOK OF MARTYRS With 63 PLATES Or ACTS & MONUMENTS Of The CHURCH Fox
Item History & Price
I have here for sale a superbly illustrated book entitled THE BOOK OF MARTYRS or the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church being a complete history of Martyrdom from the Commencement of Christianity to the present time by the Rev John Fox, Revised and Improved by the Re John Malham, embellished with 70 full page engravings. It was published in 1814 by Thomas Kelly, London. Frontispiece, Title page with illustration, one full page plate, and 60 plates at two plate...s to each page - so 63 plates in total.The Actes and Monuments, popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian John Foxe, first published in 1563 by John Day. It includes a polemical account of the sufferings of Protestants under the Catholic Church, with particular emphasis on England and Scotland. The book was highly influential in those countries and helped shape lasting popular notions of Catholicism there. The book went through four editions in Foxe's lifetime and a number of later editions and abridgements, including some that specifically reduced the text to a Book of Martyrs.
Fully bound in brown leather hardboards. With six raised bands, and a maroon gilt title label to the spine. Scuffs to edges worn and rubbed, both boards are detached together with the first two pages, otherwise in pretty good condition. cviii, Authentic Memoirs of John Fox 4 pages, 692 pages, and a four page Index. Huge at 43 cm x 27 cm.We have over 1000 items in our Ebay shop on a wide range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and furtheGiltr items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
Fully bound in brown leather hardboards. With six raised bands, and a maroon gilt title label to the spine. Scuffs to edges worn and rubbed, both boards are detached together with the first two pages, otherwise in pretty good condition. cviii, Authentic Memoirs of John Fox 4 pages, 692 pages, and a four page Index. Huge at 43 cm x 27 cm.We have over 1000 items in our Ebay shop on a wide range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and furtheGiltr items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
