The Book of Martyrs (Foxe)

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The Book of Martyrs (1926)
by John Foxe, edited by William Byron Forbush

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(first published by John Day in 1563, with many subsequent editions, also by Day), an apocalyptically oriented English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, mainly in England, and other groups from former centuries who were deemed by Foxe and others of his contemporaries, such as John Bale, to be forerunners of the Protestant Reformation through whom the lineage of the true church could be traced. Though the work is commonly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, the full title is Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, touching Matters of the Church. The work was lavishly produced and illustrated with a large number of woodcuts.

This is a 1926 abridgment of the original work, which was titled The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church. The 1926 edition was edited by William Byron Forbush and is much shorter than Foxe's original, which contained over 1800 folio pages.

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