The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom
Subtitle: being Fox's Book of martyrs, 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 the earliest ages of the Church to the present period. Including the life, sufferings, and martyrdom of Our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ; with the martyrdom of the Apostles, Evangelists, and other primitive Christians. The ten great persecutions under the Roman emperors. The persecution in Persia, under Saphores: and the persecutions under the Arian Vandals. The martyrdom of the missionaries in China: the persecutions in the East-Indies: the barbarities exercised by the Spaniards in America: and the cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. The persecutions exercised by the Papists in various parts of Europe. Together with a complete history of the martyrdoms of the faithful and virtuous in the first age of the world: the persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the children of Israel by the Philistines, and other barbarous nations. The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology and complete history of persecutions.
By: By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Contributors: Wright, Paul, d. 1785.; Cadigan, Cornelius J., former owner.; Boston College High School,
Edition: Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles relating to the acts and monuments of the church, by Paul Wright, D.D.
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: Christian martyrs -- Early works to 1800.; Persecution -- Early works to 1800.; Church history -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: New and complete book of martyrs; Book of martyrs; Universal history of martyrdom
Work titles: Actes and monuments
Notes: Pagination: v. 1: iv, [1], 6-939, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates (frontispiece folded); v. 2: 669, [3] p., [19] leaves of plates.

Errors in pagination: v. 1, p. 175, 847 misnumbered 875, 829; v. 2, p. 85, 189 misnumbered 87, 186.

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

Plates engraved by John Scoles, N. Pigalle, Benjamin Tanner, and Elkanah Tisdale.

Text in double columns.

Subscribers' list: v. 2, p. [1-2] at end.

Evans 26991

ESTC (RLIN), W15759

Burns Library copy 1: stamp of Boston College High School. Copy 2: bookplate: Cornelius J. Cadigan Memorial Collection.

Burns Library copy 1 imperfect: wanting final 3 leaves of plates in v. 1. Copy 2: wanting all plates in v. 1 and but 3 plates in v. 2.

Burns Library copy 1: rebound in blue bookcloth. Copy 2: bound in leather.

c.1: 00/01 1920R 1-2.

c.2: 00/01 1921R 1-2.