Fox's original and complete book of martyrs; or, an universal history of martyrdom. Containing full, copious, and authentic accounts of the lives and sufferings, together with the actions, characters, examinations, trials, religious principles, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of all the glorious Protestant martyrs, during the reign of Queen Mary the First. To which will be added, a genuine, circumstantial, full and universal history of the lives, persecutions, tortures and deaths of the primitive martyrs, [... and] Church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and others, from the birth of our blessed saviour Jesus Christ to the reign of Queen Mary. The whole originally composed b the Rev. John Fox, M.A. Formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford. A new edition. Now carefully revised by Paul Wright, D.D. Vicar of Oakley, &c. in Essex, and author of the Christian's Complete Family Bible, and other learned, peons, and useful works, universally approved by the p

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  • Fox's original and complete book of martyrs; or, an universal history of martyrdom. Containing full, copious, and authentic accounts of the lives and sufferings, together with the actions, characters, examinations, trials, religious principles, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of all the glorious Protestant martyrs, during the reign of Queen Mary the First. To which will be added, a genuine, circumstantial, full and universal history of the lives, persecutions, tortures and deaths of the primitive martyrs, [... and] Church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and others, from the birth of our blessed saviour Jesus Christ to the reign of Queen Mary. The whole originally composed b the Rev. John Fox, M.A. Formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford. A new edition. Now carefully revised by Paul Wright, D.D. Vicar of Oakley, &c. in Essex, and author of the Christian's Complete Family Bible, and other learned, peons, and useful works, universally approved by the p
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Imprint
London: printed [by R. Balfe] for, and sold wholesale and retail, by Alex. Hogg, No. 16, Paternoster-Row, and by most other booksellers and newsmen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, [1800?]
Publication year
1800-1800
ESTC No.
T138685
Grub Street ID
186550
Description
951,[5]p.,plates : ports. ; 2⁰
Note
With an additional titlepage, engraved, and an index.

Published in 80 numbered parts.

Printer's name from verso of titlepage.

"Printed (by assignment from V. Griffith, successor to H. Trapp) for Alex Hogg" (Sig.[pi]2v).
Uncontrolled note
GK: [1785?]; not in NUC. Trapp died in 1791; according to Maxted a V. Griffiths practised from the same address (1 Paternoster Row) from 1797. The plates are undated. Not a reissue of other [1800?] eds. (cf. press figures)