The History of the Martyrs Epitomised. A Cloud of Witnesses; or, the Sufferers Mirrour.
Boston: Rogers and Fowle in Queen-Street, 1748. Hardcover. ESTC W12742, Sabin 44124 ("A good specimen of American Printing"). Two volumes bound together. [viii], [1]-267, [v]; [i]-xi, [i],[1]-292, [iv]. Includes half title page (with brief biography of the author on the verso) and title page for the second volume, as well as a final advertising leaf. Worn binding, with starting joints. Slight foxing from edges. Old bookseller's red stamp on front free endpaper, stain on rear fly leaf and advertising leaf.
This 1748 edition brings a religious work from the previous century into the colonial American context. Hall's 1665 collection of martyrs and last words, from Adrian to Zuinglius, is framed by an assortment of paratextual material, including an introduction by the Puritan minister Samuel Lee. Good. Item #2025-R58
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