A new martyrology : or, The bloody assizes: now exactly methodized in one volume. Comprehending a compleat history of the lives, actions, trials, sufferings, dying speeches, letters, and prayers of all those eminent martyrs who fell in the west of England, and elsewhere, from the year 1678. to 1689. With the pictures of several of the most eminent of them in copper plates. To this treatise is added, The life and death of George Lord Jeffryes.
John Tutchin (1661-1707)
Category
Books
Date
1689
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3214176
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 196, 80, [4], 47, [5] p., [2] leaves of plates : ports. ; 8vo. Lacks final two leaves of advertisements. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on title page: "Mrd.[?] M[?] Vyvyan 1829." and "Am: Hity[?]". Capital letter "R" written in pencil on second front free endpaper. Binding: seventeenth-century full panelled calf; double fillet to form a border; gilt tooled outer border; blind-stamped corner pieces and centrepieces; spine blind-tooled and lettered direct in gilt: 'Western Martyrolo' and '& Life of Jeffryes'; corners edge rolled in gilt; gilt edges; gilt fillet on turn-ins.
Makers and roles
John Tutchin (1661-1707)