1576 Foxe Book Of Martyrs John Day Foxes Acts And Monuments
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1576 Foxe Acts and Monuments3rd Lifetime Edition of John FoxeLargefolio printing (12-3/4" x 10" x 4-3/4" thick)- 2 volumes finelybound together in one volumeOver 2, 000 original pages!!!Over150 woodcuts of glorious Martyrs for Christ including those of:· WilliamTyndale· JohnHuss· JohnWicliffe and his Lollards· &nbs...p; JohnRogers· HenryVIIIand many morePrintedby John Day in London3rdedition within the lifetime of John Foxe. Very rarely found complete.Nearlyflawless edition of this rare masterpiece. Huge book with over 2, 000 pages, complete and bound in a handsome leather binding, bright, clean, and wellpreserved.Allpages original except for the following repairs:· Volume1 title page facsimile· Plateafter Y4 (between 260-261) facsimile· Volume2 title page facsimileo SubsequentAAa1 (773-774) in facsimile· Missingplate after NNn6 (between 928-929)· Repairto torn page KKK4, loss of marginal notes (1151)· Tornpage DDDd3, no loss (1417)· Ridleyand Latimer plate after MMMm4 (between 1660-1661) partially supplied in facsimile· EEEEe3, 4(1849-1852) in facsimile· Missingplate after GGGGg1 (between 1858-1859)· Repairto torn page OOOOo3 (1945-1946)Historyof Foxes Acts and Monuments JohnFoxe’s Book of Martyrs has been called “The most important Christian work everprinted outside of the Bible itself.” It documents the martyrdom of all ofhistory’s recorded saints from the original Apostles of the First Century, tothe mid-16th Century Reformation, spanning through the bloody reign of QueenMary.It was, to that time, the largest publishing project ever undertaken in England.Largefolio containing over 2, 000 pages with black letter font in double columnsJohnFoxe recounts the struggles and the blood these men and women paid that wemight have our Bible freely in our homes.Thisbook is a record of passion, glory, and blood. An account and a tribute tothose "who loved not their lives even unto death", Revelation 12:11.
