The Works of John Knox Volume 1 - Unedited History of the Reformation in Scotland (Books 1 & 2) and 18 appendices.

W. Stanford Reid, in his Trumpeter of God, notes that Knox "wrote history as a prophet" and that, wherever he could, he used original sources, many of which he reproduced. Furthermore, he proclaims that this "is still a work that no one interested in this area can afford to neglect." As W.C. Dickinson has commented, "it is his monument, for in it he puts flesh and blood on the whole Reformation movement."

Innes says of this work, "the author who has enabled us to see his own confused and changing age under 'the broad clear light of that wonderful book' the History of the Reformation in Scotland, and who outside that book was the utterer of many an armed and winged word which pursues and smites us to this day, must have been born with nothing less than genius -- genius to observe, to narrate, and to judge. Even had he written as a mere recluse and critic, looking out upon his world from a monk's cell or from the corner of a housetop, the vividness, the tenderness, the sarcasm and the humor would still have been there" (John Knox, p. 45).

Moreover, Burton writes, "there certainly is in the English language no other parallel to it in clearness, vigor, and picturesqueness with which it renders the history of a stirring period" (cited in Innes, John Knox, p. 45). This edition far surpasses the edited down version that is available in paperback.

Over 600 pages of stirring Reformation history.