The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom
Subtitle: 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: 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]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 26991
Publisher: Printed and sold by William Durell, at his book-store and printing-office, no. 208, Pearl-Street, near the fly-market.
Published: 1794
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Subjects: Martyrologies; Christian martyrs; Persecution; Church history
Other titles: Book of martyrs.
Work titles: Actes and monuments
Notes: Issued in forty parts, beginning in 1794.

Signatures: v. 1, [A]⁴ B-5U⁴ 5W⁴ 5X-6A⁴ 6B² (6B2 verso blank); v. 2, A-4P⁴.

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].

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