Foxe (John) [The First [Second] Volume of the Ecclesiasticall History], 2 vol., third edition, printed mostly in black letter, double column, vol. 2 title within elaborate woodcut border (trimmed at foot with small portion of loss and laid down), woodcut illustrations, lacking *1-4 (including vol. 1 title), [chi]1, NNNNn1&2 and all after NNNNn4 (final c.50 leaves, except single leaf PPPPp2 misbound before NNNNn3), 2 woodcut plates only (of 4) bound after MMMM4 & FFFFf1 but laid down and with loss, some defects and repairs with loss to small portion of text or woodcut, see in particular vol. 2 Sig. EEEe-YYYy & at beginning and end, the occasional leaf with substantial loss or repair (see VV1&4, XX1, vol. 2 A5, VVu1&2, TTT4, EEEe6, SSSs5), some staining and browning, 19th-century reverse calf, rather worn with some loss to backstrip, covers detached, [ESTC S121348; STC 11224], folio, Iohn Daye, 1576.

⁂ The third edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, a monumental work of early English Church history.

Provenance: Elizabeth Galpine (early ownership name to verso of vol. 1 colophon f.); "From the Library of the Countess of Blessington" (later pencil inscription to vol. 1 front free endpaper).