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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 26991
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26991.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Martyrologies.
- Christian martyrs.
- Persecution.
- Church history.
- Genre:
- Subscription lists (Publishing)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm (4to)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Other Title:
- Book of martyrs.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York: : Printed and sold by William Durell, at his book-store and printing-office, no. 208, Pearl-Street, near the fly-market., M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]
- Notes:
- Issued in forty parts, beginning in 1794.
- Vol. 1: iv, [1], 6-939, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates (frontispiece folded); v. 2: 669, [3] p., [19] leaves of plates.
- Errors in paging: v. 1, p. 175, 847 misnumbered 875, 829; v. 2, p. 85, 189 misnumbered 87, 186.
- Printed in two columns.
- Plates engraved by John Scoles, N. Pigalle, Benjamin Tanner, and Elkanah Tisdale.
- Subscribers' list, v. 2, p. [670-672].
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26991).
- Cited in:
- Evans 26991
- OCLC:
- 55835159
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