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1097 - [VERSTEGAN, Richard] *Theatrum crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis*. Antwerp: A. Hubert, 1592. 4to: 95 pp. (occasional spotting; title page slightly soiled with minor restorations; clear water stain in the lower corner of quire G). 19th-century quarter brown shagreen, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands (joints rubbed, corners bumped). 2nd ed. (1st 1587) of this famous work describing the horrifying tortures inflicted on Catholics by Calvinists in England during the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, by Huguenots in France, and by Protestants in the Netherlands. Illustrated with a vignette on the title page and 29 large copperplate engravings depicting the cruelty of the suffering endured and the famous beheading of Mary Stuart. These plates, accompanied by some verses and a commentary attributed to Bocchius, were likely engraved by H. Wiericx. Ref. De le Court 908. - Adams T-445. - BT 4729. - Funck 407. - Allison & Rogers - Contemp. printed lit. English Counter-Reform, 1299. - Milward, Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age, 268. - Pettegree (NB) 30627. - Not in Machiels.
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[VERSTEGAN, Richard] *Theatrum crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis*. Antwerp: A. Hubert, 1592. 4to: 95 pp. (occasional spotting; title page slightly soiled with minor restorations; clear water stain in the lower corner of quire G). 19th-century quarter brown shagreen, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands (joints rubbed, corners bumped). 2nd ed. (1st 1587) of this famous work describing the horrifying tortures inflicted on Catholics by Calvinists in England during the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, by Huguenots in France, and by Protestants in the Netherlands. Illustrated with a vignette on the title page and 29 large copperplate engravings depicting the cruelty of the suffering endured and the famous beheading of Mary Stuart. These plates, accompanied by some verses and a commentary attributed to Bocchius, were likely engraved by H. Wiericx. Ref. De le Court 908. - Adams T-445. - BT 4729. - Funck 407. - Allison & Rogers - Contemp. printed lit. English Counter-Reform, 1299. - Milward, Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age, 268. - Pettegree (NB) 30627. - Not in Machiels.
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