Elizabeth Evenden is a lecturer in the Department of English at Brunel University. Her recent publications include Patents, Pictures and Patronage: John Day and the Tudor Book Trade (2008).

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Explores the production of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs', a milestone in the history of the English book.

Résumé
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. Based on little-used manuscript sources, this unique study explores the production of this seminal product of the English Reformation.

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Introduction; 1. The text in its context: the printer's world in early modern Europe; 2. Ancient fragments and 'noythy bookes': the early careers of John Foxe and John Day; 3. Adversity and opportunity: Foxe and Day during Mary's reign; 4. The making of the first edition of the Acts and Monuments; 5. Sources and resources: preparing the 1570 edition; 6. 'Fayre pictures and painted pageants': the illustrations of the 'Book of Martyrs'; 7. A Parting of the Ways? Foxe and Day, 1570 6; 8. Fathers, sons and other adversaries: the background to and making of the 1583 edition; Conclusion. Foxe after Foxe: the making of the Acts and Monuments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.