The Book of Martyrs Revised, with Notes and an Appendix by the Rev. William Bramley-Moore, with Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert (& others). by FOXE, JOHN:

London: S. W. Partridge. FAIR. Textblock appears clean. Moderate wear to extremities. Spine tips worn through. Binding sound but wobbly.. 1871. Original binding. RARE. Brown cloth hardcover. Decorative black and gilt stamping. Bevelled. Brown endpapers. Illustration of martyrs tied to the stake embossed to front cover. 41 illustrations in full colour. 284pp. Index.

Cassell, Petter and Galpin. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. a very heavy copy, may require extra postage. the leather boards are edge worn. foxing and damp marks. several inscriptions. text is clear and legible. binding has been repaired. undated, C, 1870. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

1877 John Foxe's Book of Martyrs Acts & Monuments Illustrated Martyrology Cassel

"I am resolved to sacrifice everything in this transitory world, for the sake of salvation in a world that will last to eternity."
― John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs

A beautiful printing of John Foxe's famous "Actes and Monuments". Foxe began working on this landmark work in 1552. While in exile, in 1554, the first examples of this book were published in Latin focusing on the religious persecution of Lollards in England during the 1400s. However, the rest of his book was written in response to more persecution occurring throughout England.
This edition includes stunning full-page art depicting torture, assassinations and deaths of famous martyrs by George Housman Thomas and Sir J. Gilbert.
Item number: #15029
Price: $499
FOXE, John
The Book of Martyrs. Revised, with notes ... by ... W. Bramley-Moore.
London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [ca. 1877].

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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1803. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. SMALL QUARTO. - 2 Volumes in 1 - Tree calf boards w/ gilt decorations and lettering to spine - Boards badly worn and marked w/ joints and edges heavily rubbed - Spine ends heavily worn and frayed w/ bands exposed - Corners crushed and torn w/ boards exposed - Spine chipped and creased - Edges of text block tanned and foxed w/ some corners a little dog eared - Endpapers stained and toned - Contemporary previous owner signature to blank preliminary page - Content heavily tanned and foxed w/ font faded - Book ow/ solid & clean - 612/580 pages

London: John Daye, 1583. Fourth edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs (as it was later known), and the last to be published in his lifetime. The first English edition was published in 1563. Folio, 2 volumes bound into one in full near contemporary full brown calf over beveled boards elaborately stamped and paneled in blind, rebacked, seven raised bands to the spine, later brass fixtures to the front and rear panels, text in two columns, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout. Text lacks preliminaries and title-page, and first five leaves remounted and partially restored (with significant loss to text), and final twenty leaves with significant chipping. In very good condition. A well-preserved example of this monumental work, published over four centuries ago. Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and only five years after the death of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary I, Foxe's Acts and Monuments was an affirmation of the English Reformation in a period of religious conflict between… Read More