FOXE (JOHN) [Book of Martyrs]. Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable. Happening in the Church with an Universal History, 3 vol., ninth edition, general title printed in red and black, engraved portrait of Foxe by Sturt, 4 engraved plates (2 folding, laid down, one with small losses), 15 additional engraved portraits (published by Richard Chiswell) bound in, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, early reverse calf, rebacked with gilt morocco spine labels (one detached), worn, upper joint of volume 1 weakened [ESTC R3576], folio (388 x 245mm.), for the Company of Stationers, 1684 Fußnoten Foxe's Book of Martyrs, not only "a remarkably popular book but was one of immense, almost unquestioned, authority... By the end of the seventeenth century, however, there was only one way in which Acts and Monuments could be of interest to large numbers of readers: as a compendium of atrocities, real and imagined, committed by Catholics against protestants and as a knife to twist in the wound of sectarian hatred. The last early modern unabridged edition of the work was printed in 1684 at the height of the exclusion crisis" (ODNB). Provenance: Benjamin Sterne, early ownership inscription on title; George Thornhill, bookplate, and crest stamped in gilt on spines.
FOXE (JOHN) [Book of Martyrs]. Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable. Happening in the Church with an Universal History, 3 vol., ninth edition, general title printed in red and black, engraved portrait of Foxe by Sturt, 4 engraved plates (2 folding, laid down, one with small losses), 15 additional engraved portraits (published by Richard Chiswell) bound in, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, early reverse calf, rebacked with gilt morocco spine labels (one detached), worn, upper joint of volume 1 weakened [ESTC R3576], folio (388 x 245mm.), for the Company of Stationers, 1684 Fußnoten Foxe's Book of Martyrs, not only "a remarkably popular book but was one of immense, almost unquestioned, authority... By the end of the seventeenth century, however, there was only one way in which Acts and Monuments could be of interest to large numbers of readers: as a compendium of atrocities, real and imagined, committed by Catholics against protestants and as a knife to twist in the wound of sectarian hatred. The last early modern unabridged edition of the work was printed in 1684 at the height of the exclusion crisis" (ODNB). Provenance: Benjamin Sterne, early ownership inscription on title; George Thornhill, bookplate, and crest stamped in gilt on spines.
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