Accession number
PML 196085
Creator
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
Published
London : Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1641.
Credit line
Acquired before 1950[?].
Notes
Illustrated t.p.
Last ed. in Black Letter. Cf. Lowndes, v. 1, p. 829.
Side notes.
Vol. 1 has half-title: The booke of martyrs.
Vol. 2-3 have title: The ecclesiasticall history: containing the acts and monuments of martyrs.
Last ed. in Black Letter. Cf. Lowndes, v. 1, p. 829.
Side notes.
Vol. 1 has half-title: The booke of martyrs.
Vol. 2-3 have title: The ecclesiasticall history: containing the acts and monuments of martyrs.
Description
3 v. : ill. (woodcuts); 42 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on fly-leaf in 18th[?]-cen. hand: "John Fox in Henry VIII's time lived at Reigate where he taught [th]e D. of Norfolk's children in Surrey, & was [th]e first [tha]t ever publicly preached [th]e Protestant Religion in [tha]t place."; old shelfmark inscribed on each volume's front paste-down: L j [or L 1]. 28 [-30].
Provenance
With Charles II's royal binding similar to those designated for the Old Royal Library and, in particular, for the Yeomen in Ordinary of His Majesty's Great Chamber and the Keepers of the Privy Lodgings, who were issed 3-vol. chained copies of the Book of Matryrs (cf. English Restoration Bindings, p. 19); fly-leaf inscription suggests ties to Reigate, Surrey and/or the Duke of Norfolk's family.
Binding
Sheepskin, tooled in gilt with royal cyphers of Charles II on spine and angled at corners of 3-line gilt panel on upper and lower boards by the Mearne Bindery, ca. 1660s; colorful fore-edge design now faded; with clasps and evidence of a chainmark on the lower board; housed in tan cloth boxes.
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