Creator Biography
John Foxe, British.
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Creation Date
1576
Medium
Wood block printing, printed on the printing press
Dimensions
12.25 x 8
Credit Line
Gift in Loving Memory of Boris Blick & Judith Rosenbloom Blick by their daughter Sarah Blick, 2024
Accession Number
2015.109
Provenance
From Artifacts Unlimited, 117 North State Street, Pennsylvania. Certified to be from Foxe's book, printed at London by John Day in 1576
Description
A page from the book, Actes and Monuments of the Martyrs this anti-catholic book describes the sufferings of Protestant martyrs at the hands of the Roman Church. This book was the first 'best-selling' book in the English language.
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