The first[-second] volume of the ecclesiasticall history : contayning the actes [and] monumentes of thinges passed in euery kinges time in this realme, especially in the Churche of England principally to be noted : with a full discourse of such persecutions, horrible troubles, the suffring of martirs, the seuere punishment of persecutors, the great prouidence of God in preseruing many, and other thinges incident touching aswell the sayde Church of England, as also Scotland and all other forrein nations, from the primitiue time till the raigne of king Henry the Eyght / newly recognised and inlarged by the author I. Foxe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foxe, John, 1516-1587.

Contributor:

Day, John, 1522-1584, printer.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Standardized Title:

Actes and monuments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian martyrs--Early works to 1800.

Christian martyrs.

Persecution--England--History--Early works to 1800.

Persecution.

Persecution--History--Early works to 1800.

Church history--Early works to 1800.

Church history.

History.

England.

Penn Provenance:

Fry, J. (autograph, 1879)

Tyms(?), John (autograph)

Fiske(?), John (autograph)

Richard, Robert (inscription, 1728)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (26 unnumbered pages, 771 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 773-1820, 1833-1868, 1857-2008 pages, 28 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered folded leaves of plates) : illustrations, map ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

First volume of the ecclesiasticall history

Second volume of the ecclesiasticall history : conteyning the actes [and] monumentes of martyrs : with a generall discourse of these latter persecutions, horrible troubles and tumultes stirred vp by Romish prelates in the church : with diuers other thinges incident, especially to this realme of England and Scotlande, as partly also to all other forreine nations apperteining, from the tyme of K. Henry the viij to Queene Elizabeth our gracious Lady now raigning

Place of Publication:

At London : Printed by Iohn Daye ..., Anno 1576.

Notes:

"The second volume of the ecclesiasticall history" has special title page; signatures and pagination are continuous.

Publication date from colophon of volume one.

Signatures: *⁴ [par.]⁴ [maltese cross]⁴ chi1 A-Y⁶ Aa-Yy⁶ AA-TT⁶ VV-XX⁴, ²chi1, [superscript chi]A⁶, BBb-YYy⁶ AAA-RRR⁶ SSS-TTT⁴ AAAa-YYYy⁶ AAAA-YYYY⁶ AAAAa-TTTTt⁶ VVVVv-YYYYy⁴.

"Variant has leaf [superscript chi]A1 signed 'AAa1'."--ESTC.

Title within woodcut border; woodcut illustrations, initials, and tail-pieces.

"The 'plates' are woodcuts and appear after Y4, NNN6, MMMM5, and GGGGg1."--ESTC.

Text primarily in double columns.

Printed marginalia.

Errata on leaf chi1r.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 540:4 on UMI microfilm.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries with the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Penn Libraries copy is variant with leaf [superscript chi]A1 signed AAa1.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all after leaf YYYYy1 wanting; small hole in inner margin of leaf KK3 with loss of side-notes; leaves AAa1 and AAa2 torn and mended at top and bottom margins with loss of page numbers and damage to running title.

Penn Libraries copy has 5 woodcut plates (4 torn off at fold, 1 intact duplicate) of illustrations associated with this work bound at beginning of v. 1; they are preceded by a ms. leaf ("These are plates but what edition I do not know ... J. Fry, Colham, 1879") and followed by a mutilated woodcut illustration of early Christian martyrs mounted on a blank leaf.

Penn Libraries copy: title leaf of v.1 repaired at outer margin; first gathering closely cropped at top margin without loss of text; partially illegible ms. marginal inscription in ink on leaf HH5v; another copy of title leaf of v. 2 inserted at beginning of volume (first copy of title leaf mended at bottom and outer margins; second copy torn and mended at outer corners and mended at bottom margin); portrait with caption title "John Fox, the martyrologist" inserted before leaf AAa1; leaf UUu4 bound before leaf UUu3 (signed UUu4).

Cited in:

ESTC S121348

STC (2nd ed.) 11224

OCLC:

34835322