The Book of Martyrs: Containing an Account of the Sufferings & Death of the Protestants in the Reign of Queen Mary the First.
John Fox [John Foxe], M. Madan [Martin Madan]39cm x 24cm. iv, 815, [5] pages, engraved title, 30 plates. Half leather, papered boards.
18th-century folio edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, here edited by the English barrister and clergyman Martin Madan, better known for his 1780 work advocating polygamy, Thelyphthora, or A Treatise on Female Ruin. This copy with 30 plates, as called for, however some of the plates bound in a different order and the plate of The Burning of Rose Allin replaced with the plate of The Body and Bones of Wickliff Taken Up and Burned from the separately issued The Lives of the Primitive Martyrs.
Boards rubbed. Leather recently refurbished with tissue repair to joints. 6cm closed tear to page 719/20. Minor soiling and tanning, some very minor corner creasing. Very Good Condition.
AU$1,500.00
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