Search Results: Authors starting with F from Dungeness Books

London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, n.d. (19th cent.). 4to. [4], 787, [3] pp. with numerous full-page steel engravings. Text in two column Roman type within ruled border. Bound in period half-calf with gilt rolls to covers and gilt rules to spine. Five raised bands and a red morocco label with "Life of Christ" lettered in gilt. Section of leaves/plates near front detached and frayed. Occasional staining. A fair copy.

Summary: London: Adam Islip, Felix Kingston, and Robert Young, 1632. Folio (14 x 9.5 in). A near-complete set of Foxe's famous Acts and Monuments also knows as the Book of Martyrs. The work documents the martyrdom of all of history's recorded saints from the first century through the Reformation period with abundant and gruesome illustrations. This seventh edition is the first issued in three-volumes and printed in black letter. Description: Vol. 1: full-page engraved title; Kalendar (6 pp.); Ad Dominum (3 pp.); Epistle Dedicatory (3 pp.); Ad Doctum Lectorem (3 pp.); To the True and Faithful Congregation (1 p.); A Chronologie (76 pp.); Acts and Monuments (1024 pp.); Vol. 2: Acts and Monuments (788 pp.); Vol. 3: Acts and Monuments (1030 pp.); A Continuation of the Histories of Forreine Martyrs (108 pp.) with title page (1631); A Table of All Principal Persons (94 pp.). Vol. 1 contains 36 woodcuts with the engraved title page (1632), a full-page plate of The Poisoning of King John (inserted after Ee4).… Read More

London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589. Folio (10.5 x 7.5 in). Scarce first edition of Fulke's New Testament with the Rheims translation and the Bishops' version side by side in parallel columns. An important edition that predates the printing of the King James Bible, upon which it had a significant influence.
Description: General title page (1589) with architectural border. Fifty-six lines to the column. Twenty-three preliminary leaves. Text in two columns with the Rheims translation in Roman type and the Bishops' version in italics. All of the marginal notes, chapter arguments, and annotations of the 1582 Rheims are reprinted, and interspersed with the Confutations. Woodcut initials, head and tailpieces.
Collation: *^4, A-Y^6, Aa-Yy^6, Aaa-Yyy^6, Aaaa-Vvvv^6, Xxxx^4.
Binding: Rebound in modern calf decorated in blind. Spine with five raised bands, blind stamps to compartments and gilt-line black morocco label with the words "Text of the New Testament – William Fvlke" lettered in gilt. All… Read More