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  “I fear neither death nor fire, being prepared for both": Rare fourth edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs

  FOXE, John.

  Acts and Monuments of matters of most speciall and memorable happenyng in the Church, with an Universall history of the same…Newly revised and recognized. [Foxe’s Book of Martyrs].

  London: John Daye, 1583.

  Fourth edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs (as it was later known), and the last to be published in his lifetime. The first English edition was published in 1563. Folio, 2 volumes bound into one in full near contemporary full brown calf over beveled boards elaborately stamped and paneled in blind, rebacked, seven raised bands to the spine, later brass fixtures to the front and rear panels, text in two columns, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout. Text lacks preliminaries and title-page, and first five leaves remounted and partially restored (with significant loss to text), and final twenty leaves with significant chipping. In very good condition. A well-preserved example of this monumental work, published over four centuries ago.

  Price: $12,500.00     Item Number: 145220

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