Foxe, John (1516-1587) Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happenyng in the Church, with an Vniversal History o

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Foxe, John (1516-1587) Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happenyng in the Church, with an Vniversal History of the Same. [London: Imprinted by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate beneath S. Martins], An. 1583. Mens. Octobr. Two folio volumes bound as one, xylographic woodcut title page, with woodcut portrait of Foxe bound opposite (both trimmed and mounted),woodcut title for volume two present, with folding woodcut plate (mounted and repaired from verso) and numerous woodcut text illustrations throughout, missing the final leaf, some minor worming to contents, bound in later full calf, a prodigious volume of more than 2,000 pages.
Estimate $600-800

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