Short answers, pulled from the story.
John Foxe published the first English edition of The Actes and Monuments in March 1563 from the press of John Day. This volume contained about 1800 pages and cost more than ten shillings which was three weeks' pay for a skilled craftsman.
The number of woodcuts increased from 60 to 150 in the second edition of John Foxe's work. These illustrations linked England's suffering back to primitive times until the reign of King Henry VIII and covered the period from Queen Elizabeth onward.
Thomas Harding called Acts and Monuments that huge dunghill of your stinking martyrs full of a thousand lies. Detractors accused John Foxe of dealing falsely with evidence, misusing documents, and telling partial truths.
Following a 1571 Convocation order John Foxe's Acts and Monuments was chained beside the Great Bible in cathedrals select churches and even several bishops' and guild halls. Selected readings from text were proclaimed from pulpit as if it were Scripture.
The title Foxe's Book of Martyrs where author name reads as if part of title appears first in John Kennedy 1840 edition possibly as printing error. That title was not much in use before 1750 nor regularized as choice before 1850.