1829 Fox’s Book Of Martyrs, Two Volumes, Revised And Improved. Illustrated
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Book Descriptions: Fox’s Book of Martyrs; or, the Acts and Monuments of the ChristianChurch; Being a Complete History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of theChristian Martyrs From the Commencement of Christianity to the Present Period. InTwo Volumes. Revised and Improved by the Reverend John Malham. Re-Edited by theReverend T. Pratt, D. D. Subtitled: “To Which is Added an Account of theInquisition, the Bartholomew Massacre in France, the General Persecution UnderLouis XIV, the ...Massacres of the Irish Rebellions in the Years 1641 and 1798, Rise, Progress, and Persecutions of the People Commonly Called Quakers, Together With an Account of the Western Martyrology, or Bloody Assizes; Withthe Lives of Some of the Early Eminent Reformers.” New York: William Borradaile, 1829, 652 consecutivelynumbered and double-column pages, including index. 9” x 11”. Steel engravings. Full leather covers. Ex libris.The scraped covers in both volumes are detached, although those of volume twohave been reattached with tape. Engravings, several of which are quite graphicillustrating the tortures that Foxe was famous for depicting, have been thumbedand several have lengthy tears that have been repaired. Pages, however, are quite clean. Readingcopy only, although these volumes could be enhanced through professional repair.
