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Foxe Book of Martyrs 1784 80 Plates c.300 Engravings NR
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OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE. I am reselling this book with no reserve at the request of the previous buyer. Offered with no reserve is a stunning edition of Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs,” complete in all respects, printed in very large folio, and adorned with 80 full-page copper-engraved plates graphically depicting the martyrdoms and the great figures of the 15th through the 18th centuries. Several of the plates depict as many as four images, and the majority depict two, meaning that well over 200 engraved images are in fact depicted in this volume. This is without question the most beautifully illustrated edition of Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs” ever printed. � THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRAED EDITION OF FOXE’S ‘BOOK OF MARTYRS,’ PRINTED IN LARGE FOLIO AT LONDON IN 1784 AND ADORNED WITH ABOVE 200 ENGRAVED IMAGES DEPICTING SCENES OF THE MARTYRDOMS OF PROTESTANTS IN ENGLAND AND ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT. A BEAUTIFUL COPY IN A FINE BINDING. �The full title of the work reads as follows, and aptly describes the volume’s contents: �“The New and Complete Book of Martyrs, or, an Universal History of Martyrdom: Being Fox’s Book of Martyrs, Revised and Corrected, with Additions and Great Improvements. / Containing / Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First, But also a Genuine, Full and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, / From the Very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period … The Whole Forming at Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions … The Whole Originally Composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. … Now Revised, Corrected and Improved … By Paul Wright, D.D. F.S.A. … Embellished with the greatest Variety of uncommonly high-finished Copper-Plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Martyrs for their Constancy, and putting them to Death for their Faith: Also displaying many scenes of Pagan Barbarity and Papish Cruelty … the Copper-Plate Embellishments will exceed 300 elegant Engravings. … London: Printed for Alex Hogg. … MDCCLXXXIV.” �The volume is complete in all respects, with the full complement of 80 full-page engraved plates and 951 numbered pages, plus the title, preliminaries and indices. The frontispiece and title remain attached to the upper board, which is itself detached. The first gathering has also detached. Generally, though, the pages are clean and bright, the margins are ample, and the print is clear and crisp. The plates are excellent impressions throughout, with ample margins throughout. �The volume is bound in full antique-style modern paneled calf, expertly replicating the Cambridge-style paneled calf of the late 18th century. The binding is in fine condition, and is essentially without wear. The volume measures about 40 cm by 26 cm by 8 cm; each page measures about 385 mm by 250 mm. �In all, a stunning edition of Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs,” with the most beautiful engravings ever produced for the work (on 80 plates but including almost 300 separate engravings), printed in large folio at London in 1784, edited by Paul Wright, bound in 18th century calf, complete in all respects and offered with no reserve. �Please take the time necessary to review the photos below in order to gain a better understanding of the content and condition of the volume. Please also take a moment to view my other auctions of fine and rare printed books dating from the 15th through the 19th centuries. �Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, of England, only five years after the death of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary, Foxe’s “Acts and Monuments” (i.e. Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs,” as it is called hereafter) is an affirmation of the Protestant Reformati... 
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