Above, two martyrs, Dirick Carver and Margery Polley are burnt at the stake: below, two martyrs, John Denley and Thomas Iveson are burnt alive at the stake. Etching by G. Terry.
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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) : Published for H. Trapp
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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 27 x 17 cm
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Engraved for Fox's Book of Martyrs. G. Terry sculp.
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Bears number bottom right : No. 54
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Wellcome Collection 43162i
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