Acts and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the church, with a universal historie of the same

Acts and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the church, with a universal historie of the same

Full title: Acts and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the church, with a universal historie of the same. : Wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, fought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practiced by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Now again, as it was recognised, perused, and recommended to the studious reader,
Vol. 1 has half-title: Booke of martyrs

Foxe, John, 1516-1587.

London : Printed for the Company of Stationers

1641

3 v., [4] leaves of plates : ill., map (woodcuts) ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Pagination: v. 1: [92], 1033 [i.e. 1023], [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 2: [38], 788 [i.e. 786] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 3: [4], 1030 [i.e. 1020], [14], 106, [90] p., [2] leaves of plates.
V. 2 titled: The second volume of the ecclesiasticall history: containing the acts and monuments of martyrs ... whereunto is added ... the life of the author, Mr. John Fox, in Latine and English.
V. 3 titled: The third volume of the ecclesiastcall historie: containing the acts and monuments of martyrs ... whereunto are annexed certaine additions, unto the time of our soveraigne lord King Charles, now reigning.
Life of the author, v. 2, by Samuel Foxe.
Title within illustrated woodcut border.
Woodcut portrait of Foxe on verso of p. before t.p., signed: "G. Glover sculp."
Head- and tailpieces; initials.
Chiefly printed in double columns, with printed shoulder notes.
V. 3 includes, with separate t.p.: A continuation of the histories of forreine martyrs: from the happy reign of the most renowned Queene Elizabeth, to these times ... London : Printed by Ric. Hearn for the Company of Stationers, anno Dom. 1641.
Folded plate, with title: A most exact and accurat table of the first ten persecutions of the primative church ... (facing p.44, v. 1.)--signed: Jo: Droeshout, sculp.
Includes index, bound after A continuation of the histories of forreine martyrs.
Signatures: v.1: pi² (a)? (A)--(H)? (I)? A-4P? 4Q?; v. 2: A? B? ²A-²B? *-3*? ( -3*4) ³A-³B? C-3T? 3V? ( -3V4); v. 3: A-4P? 4Q?, A-P? Q² 4R-5E? ( -5E4). Numerous errors in pagination.

Bookplate: Ex Libris Daniel Robert Woolf, FRSC.

Gift of Daniel Woolf.
Foxe, Samuel, 1560-1630.
Glover, George, approximately 1618- engraver.
Droeshout, John, -1652, engraver.

English

Dated 1641 .F7.
English Short Title Catalogue R29862.
Wing, F2035

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