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Fox's Book of martyrs, or, The acts and monuments of the Christian Church : being a complete history of the lives, sufferings, and deaths of the Christian martyrs, from the commencement of Christianity to the present period / revised and improved by John Malham ; re-edited by T. Pratt.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BR1600 .F6 1830b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
- Standardized Title:
- Actes and monuments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Martyrs.
- Persecution.
- Church history.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hoskins, Francis (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes in 1 (652 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : J.J. Woodward, 1830.
- Notes:
- Each volume has added t.p., engraved.
- An abridgement of the original English edition of 1563; Actes and monuments of these latter and perillous dayes, which was based on the author's Latin edition of 1554, compiled with the assistance of Edmund Grindal, later archbishop of Canterbury, and John Aylmer.
- Contains memoir of the author doubtfully attributed to his son.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints 1428
- OCLC:
- 19375260
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