The History of the Martyrs Eptomised. A Cloud of Witnessess; or, The Sufferers Mirrour, Made Up of the Swanlike Songs, and other Choice Passsages of a great Number of Martyrs and Confessors, to the End of the Sixteenth Century

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  • Boston:: Rodgers and Fowle,, 1747.
By Mall, Thomas
8vo, contemporary calf, two volumes in one, [16], 267, [2], [1], x, 292, [2] pp. (plus one page of publisher's ads). Hinges split, top cover detached, spine partially split from opening, a few pages are loose, lacks half title and leaf A8 Volume II (last page of the preface), some soiling. While this work would originally be published in England in 1665, the first American edition would appear almost 100 years later. Each volume contains its own index of martyrs. Sabin calls the work "A good specimen of American printing". Sabin 44124. Evans 5991.

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