Shelfmark
Gd.2.01-03
Author
Title
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the church: with an universal history of the same. Wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Now again, as it was recognized, perused, and recommended to the studious reader, by the author, Mr. John Fox. Whereunto are annexed certain additions of like persecutions which have happened in these later times. To which also is added the life of the author both in Latine and English..
Varying form of title
Book of martyrs
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Second volume of the ecclesiastical history: containing the acts and monuments of martyrs
Varying form of title
Caption title: Ninth book containing the acts and things done in the reign of King Edward the Sixth
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Third volume of the ecclesiastical history: containing the acts and monuments of martyrs
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Continuation of the histories of forreign martyrs
Edition
The ninth edition..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Company of Stationers,, MDCLXXXIV. [1684]
Physical description
3 v. ([124], 895, [1]; [2], 551, [1], 131, [1]; [2], 959, [45] p., [5] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 40 cm. (fol.)
Note
"A table of tables" [i.e. index]: v.1 prelim. p. [60]-[68]; "table" v. 3 p. [1]-[44] at end.
Note
Vols. 2-3 have title: "The second [-third] volume of the ecclesiastical history: containing the acts and monuments of martyrs .., 1684". Volume 2 includes "The ninth book containing the acts and things done in the reign of King Edward the Sixth"; with caption title, separate pagination and register. Volume 3 contains "A continuation of the histories of forreign martyrs: .. printed by W.R. for S.R. .., 1684", with dated title-page on leaf 4D1; pagination and register are continuous.
Note
Frontispiece port. engraved by John Sturt.
Note
Signatures: v. 1: [superscript pi]A⁶ a-d⁶ [a]-[e]⁶ [f]² A-4E⁶ 4F⁴ -- v. 2: pi1 A-2Z⁶; ²A-L⁶ -- v. 3: pi1 A-4L⁶ ²A-D⁴ ²E-G².
Note
General title page in red and black; title of each volume printed within a double-ruled border.
Note
Text set in two columns.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R3576
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), F2036
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington inside front cover, recording donation to Eton College in 1731. Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
Contemporary mottled calf; six raised bands; gold-tooled spine compartments with gilt title within double-gold-fillet border: "Fox's martyro." [v.2 : "Fox's martyr."], and volume number in gilt; board edges tooled in blind; text block edges sprinkled red.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Do.2.05-07.
Copy-specific note
Dirty fingers and inked smudges on p. 573 of vol. 3.
Subject
Subject
Church history Chronology Early works to 1800.
Subject
Persecution History Early works to 1800.
Subject
Christian martyrs Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B47762