26th Oct, 2022 9:30

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 34
 

Fox (John) The Book of Martyrs

Fox (John)

The Book of Martyrs: Containing an Account of the Sufferings and Death of the Protestants in the Reign of Queen Mary the First ... Originally Written by Mr. John Fox: and now Revised and Corrected by an Impartial Hand, engraved title, Birkbeck College Library blind stamp to lower corner, 30 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, engraved title, some browning, marbled endpapers with printed label of Thomas Seagood to pastedown, hinges split, contemporary blind-panelled calf, rebacked with gilt-decorated spine and red morocco title label, board edges and corners repaired, [ESTC T118078], printed and sold by John Hart and John Lewis, 1732.

[with]

Strype (John) The History of the Life and Acts of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edmund Grindal, the first Bishop of London, and the second Archbishop of York and Canterbury successively, in the reign of Q. Elizabeth..., in Two Books, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red & black, wide margins, inscribed on front pastedown: ‘May 5, 1756, Bibliotheca Rawlinsoniana. E.L.’, contemporary blind-panelled calf, modern reback and corner repairs, [ESTC T147342], John Hartley, 1710;

folio (2)

Sold for £375

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