2 vols. Vol. I illustrated with 41 wood engraved scenes (2 on each plate); Vol. II with 55 wood engraved scenes (2 on each plate). (8vo) 8½x5¼, full leather, gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels. "New Edition."

John Foxe (1517-1587), the noted Martyrologist was born in Boston, the same year in which Martin Luther published his "Theses against the Church of Rome." Scholar Pishey Thompson states "It appears very probable that John Fox owed the elements of his education to his mother’s second husband, who, being a Romanist in the strictest sense, upon Fox’s secession from that faith, refused him his right to his father’s estate, and thus reduced him to beggary." Vol. I includes a brief biography of the Rev. John Fox by the Rev. J. Milner.