Accession number:
PML 17032.1
Published:
At London : Printed by Iohn Daye ..., 1573-1572.
Description:
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (woodcuts).
Notes:
Two columns to a page.
"Faultes escaped in the Printing", Sig. B3r.
Original located at All Souls' College, Oxford.
Includes indexes.
Titles with woodcut borders and 3 1/2 p. cuts.
"The Epistle or Preface to the Christian reader," signed Iohn Foxe.
Colophon dated 1572. Paging continuous for pts. 2-3.
First ed.
Historiated title page border & initials; head- & tail-pieces.
Frith's and Barnes' works have separate title pages within historiated borders; colophons at end of Tyndale's and Barnes' works gives date of publication as 1572.
Preface signed by John Foxe, and the life of each author prefixed to his works extracted from Foxe's Books of acts and monuments.
Binding:
Old calf, richly gilt and painted, silk ties, gauffered edges; Queen Elizabeth's copy with her two arms in the side panels. In blue morocco case.
Provenance:
Queen Elizabeth's copy with her two arms; Book-plate of Sir Walter Synnot.
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