Foxe, John

Actes and Monuments of Matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the Church...the sixth time newly printed.. [Henry Lownes] for the company of Stationers, 1610, volume 1 only, title within woodcut border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, woodcuts in the text, [STC 11227; Mendham F105], repairs to some margins (including title), some occasional cropping, occasional damp-staining and soiling; [The first volume of the ecclesiasticall history contaynyng the actes and monumentes of thynges passed in euery kynges tyme in this realme, especially in the Church of England principally to be noted. With a full discourse of such persecutions, horrible troubles, the sufferyng of martyrs, and other thinges incident...], John Daye, 1570, volume 2 only, woodcut illustrations, head- and tail-pieces, a few early ink scribblings in the margins, modern reversed calf, [STC 11223; Mendham F104], red morocco label on spine lettered in gilt, lacking AAa1 and AAa2 (these leaves torn with some loss, and repaired at margins), also lacking 5A2, 5A5, 5Y6, and final leaf 5I6, some occasional damp-staining and browning (especially at beginning and end), a few tears and some small holes (sometimes with loss of few words), two leaves at the end silked, a few margins and headlines cropped; folio (c360 x .254mm.), two volumes uniformly bound in modern reversed calf, red morocco labels on spines lettered in gilt

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Uncontestably the most important narrative source for the English Reformation and the work that shaped its later development.

The sixth edition (1610) of volume 1 of Foxe's monumental Acts and Monuments (later known as the Book of Martyrs), with the second edition (1570) of volume 2. The second edition was so expanded and rewritten as to become in effect a separate work from the first edition of 1563, also published by Day.