Lot 343

Foxe, John

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 5 September 2007 at 12:00 BST
£1,440
Description
The ecclesiasticall historie: containing the acts and monuments of martyrs. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1641, 3 volumes, folio, double column, chiefly black letter, titles within woodcut borders, engraved portrait frontispiece, 1 woodcut plate in volume 3 (p.770), 1 folding woodcut plate of Windsor Castle, woodcuts in text, eighteenth century half calf, pp. 133-137 volume 3 cut down and mounted without loss, corner of UU2 volume 3 restored with some words supplied in fine facsimile, occasional light spotting, a few minor rust-holes, slightly rubbed, lacking one folding plate
