Frontispiece for Fox's Book of Martyrs, showing John Fox in a decorative panel. Engraving.

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1811
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43159i
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Frontispiece for Fox's Book of Martyrs, showing John Fox in a decorative panel. Engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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John Fox's (1527-1597) Book of Martyrs was originally published in the 16th century, it being the classic history of the lives, sufferings, and deaths of the Early Christian martyrs. After the bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs

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London (Paternoster Row) : Printed for Thomas Kelly, 1811.

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 20 cm

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The Book of Martyrs or the arts and monuments of the Christian Church. Being a complete history of martyrdom from the commencement of Christianity to the present time by the Revd. John Fox, AM. Revised & improved by the Revd. John Malham embellished with engravings.

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Wellcome Collection 43159i

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