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Author/Creator:

Blanchard, Amos, 1800-1869

Contributors:

Duchemin, Eric , donor

Duchemin, Fran , honouree

Duchemin, Roderic , honouree

Foxe, John, 1516-1587

Robinson and Fairbank , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Full Title:

Book of martyrs, or, A history of the lives, sufferings and triumphant deaths of the primitive and Protestant martyrs: from the introduction of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan, popish, Protestant, and infidel persecutions, embracing together with the usual subjects contained in similar works; the recent persecutions in the cantons of Switzerland; the persecutions of the Methodist and Baptist missionaries in the West India islands; and the narrative of the conversion, capture, long imprisonment, and cruel sufferings of Asaad Shidiak, a native of Palestine. Likewise, a sketch of the French Revolution, as connected with persecution.

Main Work:

Book of martyrs, or, A history of the lives, sufferings and triumphant deaths of the primitive and Protestant martyrs ... [by Blanchard, A.]

Included Works:

Actes and monuments [by Foxe, J.]

Subjects:

Christian martyrs

Church history

Protestants

Protestants — France

Persecution

Anti-Catholicism

France

Genres:

Printed books — United States — Ohio — Cincinnati — 19th century

General Notes:

Copyright Apr. 8, 1831 by Robinson & Fairbank.
"Printed at the Cincinnati Journal Office"--T.p. verso.
Signatures: 1-5⁶ 6² 7-28⁶ 29² 30-44⁶
Morgan, R.P. Ohio, 2145
Gift: Eric Duchemin
Bound in calf with gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Spine in three compartments.
Lettering on spine faded. Two leaves of textblock (p. 309-[312]) detached.

Physical Description:

xi, 2 unnumbered pages, 14-512 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Call Numbers:

BR1601 .B53 1831

OCLC Numbers:

495474488