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WRIGHT, Paul .: The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom:
being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements /
the whole originally composed and written, by the Rev.
Mr. John Fox, ... London : Printed for, and sold by, Alex. Hogg, ..., [1795?]
Title continues: "now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles,
relating to the acts and monuments of the Church, by Paul Wright Containing not only a new,
full, copious, complete, universal and authentic account of the lives, actions, characters,
trials, religious principles, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of all the English
Protestant martyrs ... but also a genuine, full, and circumstantial history of all the many
dreadful and cruel persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by Papists,
Pagans, Jews, Turks, and others ... and including a full account of the ten great persecutions,
under the Roman Emperors ... together with a complete history of the martyrdoms of the faithful
and virtuous in the first ages of the world ... the whole forming at once a general Christian
martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions ... calculated to promote the Protestant
religion, and expel Romish superstition , and, by giving a pious and Christian turn to the mind,
be of great use and advantage to mankind in general " . A COMPLETE COPY with all engravings.
Engraved frontis, followed by a further 79 engravings (as called for) by John Scoles, N. Pigalle,
Benjamin Tanner, and Elkanah Tisdale . Some plates with two or more images to a page. Light spotting
to the edges of a few plates, but over all clean text and engravings throughout..
Unusual pagination (as instructed at the top of: "Directions to the binder")
: [6pp.] p.821-p.951/[3pp.]/p.7 -p.818/[4pp.] ending with subscribers list.
A very good copy.
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Publisher
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Alex. Hogg
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Publication Date
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1795?
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Binding
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Contemporary full calf, spine and corners professionally repaired
(using archival standard materials).
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