Author: FOX John
Title: The Lives of the Primitive Martyrs to the Reign of Queen Mary I [with] The Life of Mr. John Fox. Now carefully revis'd & corrected by M. Madan. MADAN'S 'FOX' COMPLETE WITH ALL PLATES IN CONTEMPORARY CALF
Description: H. Trapp, No. I Paternoster Row,, [1776]. 2 works in 1 vol., folio, with 2 copper-engraved portrait frontispieces, engraved and printed titles and 38 fine copper-engraved plates, some mild offsetting and age-staining as usual; contemporary full calf, back with six raised bands ruled in blind, second compartment with red leather label lettered and tooled in gilt (label worn without loss of lettering), boards moderately age-scuffed and worn, board edges and corners worn and bruised, joints cracked (but all cords and binding entirely sound, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean copy in wholly unrestored period binding. The 'Life' is complete with frontispiece and 9 plates; the 'Lives' complete with frontispiece and 29 plates. Small unobtrusive repair to bottom blank margin of Q1; p.285 of the 'Life'; wrongly numbered 286 as usual; p.345 of the 'Lives' wrongly numbered 348 as usual. AN UNUSUALLY CLEAN, SOUND AND COMPLETE COPY OF A HANDSOME AND GRAPHIC EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EDITION IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED CONTEMPORARY BINDING.

Keywords: theology, john fox, martyrs, martyrdom, calvinism, martin madan, fox's book of martyrs


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