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ORIGINAL 1596 / 1597 GIANT 2-VOLUME FOLIO SET OF THE FAMOUS FOXES BOOK OF MARTYRS! WITH ORIGINAL LEATHER BINDINGS AND DOZENS OF INCREDIBLE WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHRISTIANS BEING TORTURED AND KILLED FOR THE WITNESS OF JESUS CHRIST!
Acts And Monuments Of The Christian Martyrs And Matters Ecclesiasticall, Passed In The Church Of Christ From The Primitive Beginning, To These Our Daies, As Well As In Other Countries, As Namelie In This Realme Of England And Also Of Scotland, Discoursed At Large. By John Foxe. London: Printed by Peter Short, dwelling on Breadstreete Hill at the Sign of the Stare, in 1596 and 1597.
First Volume Entitled:
Actes And Monuments Of Matters Most Speciall And Memorable, Happening In The Church, With An Universall History Of The Same, Now Againe, As It Was Recognised, Perused And Recommended To The Studious Reader By The Author Maister John Foxe, The Fift Time Newly Imprinted
Second Volume Entitled:
The Seconde Volume Of Ecclesiasticall Historie, Conteyning The Acts And Monvments Of Martyrs, With A Generall Discourse Of These Latter Persecutions, Horrible Troubles And Tumultes... From The Time Of King Henry The VIII To Queene Elizabeth
Very early Fifth Edition of this landmark work of religious history. Two Massive Folio Volume Set! The first tome begins on page 1 and is lacking the Title page and preliminaries. The Set has a total of 1948 pages plus an incomplete 7 page index in rear of the second tome. (with the Second Volume beginning on page 729 in tome # 1.) The First tome ends on page 942 and the Second Tome begins with page 945 so it is lacking leaf (943/944). Both HUGE VOLUMES are illustrated with 140 engraved plates and one map, also including many woodcut head and tail pieces and initials, although this particular copy is noted as having two larger folding plates which are now absent. Together, each of these two huge volumes measure 15.25" tall by 10.5" wide by 3" thick, with their Original Leather bindings, which are now heavily worn. This would include both covers to second volume now detached but present, and Volume one also has both original boards loosly held by ropes. There are a few pages with tears (some with recent repairs) but most pages are clean and white ... though some light browning of pages with age on a few or occasional minor soiling, and some are loose. The index in volume two is also heavily edge worn and loose and is lacking the first and last leaves. Tome 2 is also lacking the last ? pages of text (it ends on page 1,948) and any colophon if there was one. Yet for the most part, internally the bindings are still holding strong, making them a most worthy candidate for a through restoration and rebinding, and (depending upon your appreciation for their great age) could be considered to be overall fair condition. This rare early 1596 / 1597 Set is being sold as is. Postage in U.S. is $35.
Genuinely a very scarce pair of books, seldom seen for sale on the open market, in fact have only traced two copies for sale at auction, in 1980 and 1981, and those both similarly were defective in some respect. The famed Foxs Book of Martyrs is an apocalyptically oriented English Protestant account of the tragic persecutions of Protestants, mainly conducted in England, recounting in gruesome detail the experiences of hundreds of people burnt alive or were otherwise tortured for their religious beliefs. By compiling this compelling record, Foxe helped enormously to demonstrate the historical justification for the foundation of the Church of England as a contemporary embodiment of the true and faithful church, rather than as a newly established Christian denomination. The book was very widely read, and still holds high regard, having deeply influenced English thinking for centuries. This particular edition was issued by Peter Short, a well known Elizabethan printer, who among his other notable printed works would include two quartos of Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part One (1598), and editions of The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis. Also interesting from a historical perspective is that this copy bears gift inscriptions in both volumes from Eliz. Knightley of Fausly (or Fawsly), to Devereux Knightly, dated 1697.
LIST OF PLATES PRESENT:
ILLUSTRATIONS FOR VOLUME ONE:
1. MAP OF ENGLAND AS IT WAS DIVIDED IN THE SAXONS TIMES INTO SEVEN KINGDOMS.
2. HENRICUS THE EMPEROR WITH HIS WIFE AND CHILD.
3. POPE ALEXANDER TREADING ON THE NECK OF FREDERICK THE EMPEROR.
4. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE POISONING OF KING JOHN BY A MONK OF SWINSTEAD ABBEY IN LINCOLNSHIRE.
5. THE ORDER AND THE MANNER OF TAKING UP THE BODY OF JOHN WYCLIFFE AND BURNING HIS BONES 41 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH.
6. THE BURNING OF WILLIAM SAWTRE.
7. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE HORRIBLE BURNING OF JOHN BADBY.
8. A DESCRIPTION OF THE POOR MEN DOING THEIR PENANCE WITH THEIR STRAW ON THEIR BACK.
9. THE PICTURE OF THE BURNING AND HANGING OF DIVERS PERSONS COUNTED FOR LOLLARDS IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING HENRY V.
10. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE POPES COUNCIL HOLDEN AT ROME, IN WHICH APPEARED A MONSTROUS OWL TO THE UTTER DEFACING OF THE POPE AND ALL HIS CLERGY.
11. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE BURNING OF JOHN HUS CONTRARY TO THE SAFE CONDUCT GRANTED UNTO HIM.
12. THE BURNING OF THE MASTER HIEROMN OF PRAGUE.
13. THE BURNING OF JOHN CLAIDON AND RICHARD TURMING.
14. THE BURNING OF WILLIAM TAYLOR PRIEST.
15. THE WHIPPING OF JOHN FLORENCE.
16. THE BURNING OF WILLIAM WHITE.
17. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PENANCE OF THO. PYE AND JOHN MENDHAM.
18. THE BURNING OF RICHARD HOUEDEN.
19. THE BURNING OF THOMAS RHEDONESIS.
20. THE BURNING OF JOHN GOOSE.
21. THE BURNING OF BABRAM.
22. THE MARTYRDOM OF HIEROM AND HIS TWO COMPANIONS.
23. THE TRUE PLATE OF HUS AND HIEROM AMONG THE BOHEMIANS.
24. THE BURNING OF THOMAS BERNARD AND JAMES MORDON.
25. THE IMAGE OF THE TRUE CATHOLIC OF CHRIST THE FIRST RISING OF THE BISHOPS OF ROME.
26. CONSTANTINUS EMBRACING CHRISTIAN BISHOPS.
27. THE BISHOPS OF ROME ADVANCED BY EMPERORS, ETC.
28. THE POPE CARRIED ON MENS SHOULDERS.
29. ELABORATELY ILLUSTRATED TITLE LEAF OF VOLUME TWO.
30. KING HENRY VIII AND HIS COURT.
31. A DESCRIPTION OF THE LOLLARDS TOWER WHERE RICHARD HUNN WAS FIRST MURDERED THEN BY THE SAID PARTIES HANGED AFTER COMDENMED OF HERESY AND AT LAST BURNED AT SMITHFIELD.
32. THE BURNING OF JOHN STILLMAN.
33. THE BURNING OF THOMAS MAN.
34. THE BURNING OF WILLIAM SWEETING AND JAMES BREWSTER.
35. THE BURNING OF CHRISTOPER SHOOMAKER.
36. JOHN HUS AND HIERONYMUS.
37. THE BURNING OF HENRY VOES AND JOHN ESCH.
38. THE BURNING OF JOHN CASTELLANE.
39. THE MARTYRDOM OF WOLFGANGUS.
40. BEHEADING.
41. THE MARTYRDOM OF GYLES.
42. THE MARTYRDOM OF RICHARD FEURUS.
43. THE MARTYRDOM OF A CHRISTIAN JEW.
44. THE MARTYRS BURNED.
45. THE BURNING OF THOMAS HYTTEM.
46. M. BYLNEY TWICE PLUCKED FROM THE PULPIT.
47. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE GODLY CONSTANCY OF THOMAS BYLNEY WHO BEING IN PRISON OFTEN TIMES PROVED THE FIRE WITH HIS FINGER.
48. THE MARTYRDOM OF RICHARD BAYFILD.
49. JAMES BAINHAM ENJOINED PENANCE.
50. THE BURNING OF JAMES BAINHAM.
51. JOHN DENT BURNED.
52. ROBERT KING, ROBERT DEBNAM AND NICOLAS MARSHE HANGED FOR TAKING DOWN THE ROOD OF DOUERCOURT.
ILLUSTRATIONS FOR VOLUME TWO:
1. THE BURNING OF JOHN FRITH AND ANDREW HEWET.
2. THE BURNING OF THOMAS BENET.
3. THE MARTYRDOM OF MASTER WILLIAM TINDALL IN FLANDERS BY PILFORD CASTLE.
4. THE ORDER AND MANNER OF THE BURNING OF THE CONSTANT MARTYR IN CHRIST JOHN LAMBERT.
5. COLLINS WITH HIS DOG BURNED
6. MARTYR BURNED.
7. {ANGLO-SAXON SERMON STARTING PAGE 1042}.
8. THE DEATH AND BURNING OF THE MOST CONSTANT MARTYRS IN CHRIST ROBERT BARNES, THOMAS GARRET AND WILLIAM HIEROM.
9. THE DEATH AND MARTYRDOM OF DAMLIP.
10. THE BURNING AND MARTYRDOM OF KERBY.
11. THE ORDER AND MANNER OF THE BURNING OF ANNE ASKEW, JOHN LACELLS, JOHN ADAMS, NICHOLAS BELENIAN IN SMITHFIELD.
12. THE MARTYRDOM OF GEORGE WISEHART.
13. THE BURNING OF THE BLESSED MARTYR ADAM WALLACE.
14. THE MARTYRDOM OF WALTER MILL.
15. PAGE 1165 WOODCUT OF PAPAL SYMBOL.
16. THE SHIP OF THE ROMISH CHURCH.
17. THE ORDER AND MANNER OF THE CRUEL HANDLING OF WILLIAM GARDNER AN ENGLISH MERCHANT TORMENTED AND BURNED IN PORTUGAL IN THE CAUSE OF GOD AND OF HIS TRUTH.
18. THE BURNING OF MASTER JOHN ROGERS VICAR OF SAINT PULCHERS AND READER OF PAULS IN LONDON.
19. THE BURNING OF M. LAURENCE SANDERS AT COVENTRY.
20. THE BURNING OF JOHN HOOPER BISHOP.
21. THE MARTYRDOM OF DOCTOR TAYLOR BURNED AT HADLEY.
22. THE BURNING OF THOMAS TOMKINS HAND BY BISHOP BONNER WHO NOT LONG AFTER BURNED HIS BODY.
23. THE BURNING OF THE BLESSED MARTYR THOMAS TOMKINS.
24. THE BURNING OF WILLIAM HUNTER MARTYR.
25. THE CRUEL BURNING OF JOHN LAURENCE MARTYR.
26. THE CRUEL BURNING OF MASTER FARRAR MARTYR.
27. THE BURNING OF RAWLINS WHITE MARTYR.
28. THE DESCRIPTION OF A POPISH PRIEST WHO HE WHEN HE HAD TAKEN AWAY THE GLORY AND OFFICE OF CHRIST FELL DOWN SUDDENLY AND DIED.
29. THE CRUEL BURNING OF GEORGE MARSH MARTYR.
30. THE BURNING OF WILLIAM FLOWER AT WESTMINSTER.
31. THE MARTYRDOM OF JOHN CARDMAKER AND JOHN WARNE.
32. THE MARTYRDOM OF THOMAS HAUKES AT ESSEX.
33. THE BURNING OF THOMAS WATS.
34. CERTAIN BISHOPS TALKING WITH MASTER BRADFORD IN PRISON.
35. THE TALK BETWEEN M. BRADFORD AND TWO SPANISH FRIARS.
36. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE BURNING OF JOHN BRADFORD PREACHER AND JOHN LEASE APPRENTICE.
37. THE BURNING OF FOUR MARTYRS.
38. THE MARTYRDOM OF MARGERY POLLEY.
39. THE MARTYRDOM OF DEREK CARVER.
40. THE MARTYRDOM OF THOMAS JUESON.
41. THE MARTYRDOM OF JOHN DENLEY.
42. THE BURNING OF SIX GODLY MARTYRS IN ONE FIRE.
43. A PICTURE DESCRIBING THE MANNER AND PLACE OF THEM WHO WERE IN BONDS FOR THE TESTIMONY OF THE TRUTH CONFERRING TOGETHER AMONG THEMSELVES.
44. THE MARTYRDOM OF WILLIAM HALE.
45. THE PICTURE DESCRIBING THE STRAIGHT HANDLING OF THE CLOSE PRISONERS IN LOLLARDS TOWER.
46. THE CRUEL BURNING OF ROBERT SAMUEL.
47. THE BURNING OF ROBERT GLOUER AND CORNELIUS BONGEY AT COVENTRY.
48. THE BURNING OF WILLIAM WOLFEY AND ROBERT PIGET.
49. THE DESCRIPTION OF M. LATIMER PREACHING BEFORE KING EDWARD VI.
50. A TABLE DESCRIBING THE BURNING OF BISHOP RIDLEY AND FATHER LATIMER.
51. THE ORDER AND MANNER OF BURYING IN THE FIELDS SUCH AS DIED IN PRISON AND NAMELY OF WILLIAM WISEMAN.
52. MASTER PHILPOTS BEING IN THE COALHOUSE WHERE HE FOUND THOMAS WITTLE PRIEST SITTING IN THE STOCKS.
53. THE MARTYRDOM OF MASTER JOHN PHILPOT ARCHDEACON.
54. SEVEN GODLY AND CONSTANT MARTYRS SUFFERING AT ONE FIRE TOGETHER AT SMITHFIELD.
55. THE BURNING OF A MAN AND FOUR WOMEN.
56. DESCRIPTION OF DOCTOR CRANMER HOW HE WAS PLUCKED DOWN FROM THE STAGE BY FRIARS AND PAPISTS FOR THE TRUE CONFESSION OF HIS FAITH.
57. THE BURNING OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY DOCTOR THOMAS CRANMER.
58. BURNING OF TWO WOMEN.
59. BURNING OF SIX MEN AT COLCHESTER.
60. MARTYRDOM OF A BLIND MAN AND A LAME MAN AT STRATFORD.
61. MARTYRDOM OF THREE WOMEN.
62. THE BURNING OF 13 PERSONS AT STRATFORD WHEREOF THE TWO WOMEN WENT IN AMONG THEM TO THE STAKE UNTIED.
63. MARTYRDOM OF PALMER.
64. LAMENTABLE SPECTACLE OF THREE WOMEN WITH A SILLY INFANT BURSTING OUT OF THE MOTHERS WOMB BEING FIRST TAKEN OUT OF THE FIRE AND CAST IN AGAIN.
64. THE BURNING OF SIX MARTYRS AT CANTERBURY.
65. PICTURE OF 22 GODLY AND FAITHFUL CHRISTIANS APPREHENDED ABOUT COLCHESTER PRISONED TOGETHER AT ONE BAND.
66. CRUEL BURNING OF FIVE MARTYRS AT SMITHFIELD.
67. BURNING OF SEVEN MARTYRS AT CANTERBURY.
68. BURNING OF TEN MARTYRS AT LEWES.
69. THE BURNING OF ROSE ALLINS HAND BY EDMUND TYRELL AS SHE WAS GOING TO FETCH DRINK FOR HER MOTHER LYING SICK IN HER BED.
70. MARTYRDOM OF THREE MEN AND THREE WOMEN.
71. FOUR MARTYRS BURNED.
72. BURNING OF MARGARET THURSTON.
73. BURNING OF JOHN CURD.
74. BURNING OF JOHN NOYES.
75. TRUE DESCRIPTION OF THE RACKING AND CRUEL HANDLING OF CUTHBERT SIMPSON IN THE TOWER.
76. THREE GOODLY MARTYRS BURNED.
77. BURNING OF WILLIAM NICOL.
78. THREE GODLY MARTYRS BURNED AT NORWICH.
79. BURNING OF SEVEN GODLY MARTYRS.
80. BURNING OF SIX MARTYRS AT BRAINFORD.
81. RIGHT PICTURE AND TRUE COUNTERFEIT OF BONER.
82. BURNING OF RICHARD YEOMAN.
83. BURNING OF THOMAS BENBRIDGE.
84. FOUR BURNED AT EDMUNDSBURY.
85. MARTYRDOM OF ALEXANDER GOUCH AND DRIVERS WIFE.
86. CRUEL BURNING OF WOMAN AT EXETER.
87. TWO GODLY MARTYRS BURNED AT BRISTOW.
88. THOMAS BENION BURNED.
89. BURNING OF FIVE MARTYRS CANTERBURY.
90. MANNER OF THE POPISH SPANIARDS CARRYING NICHOLAS BURTON TO THE BURNING.
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