Mall, Thomas:

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THE HISTORY OF THE MARTYRS EPITOMISED. A CLOUD OF WITNESSES; OR, THE SUFFERERS MIRROUR, MADE UP OF THE SWANLIKE SONGS, AND OTHER CHOICE PASSAGES OF A GREAT NUMBER OF MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS, TO THE ... First American edition of this mammoth compilation of "Swanlike Songs" by martyrs and the like, first published in England in 1665. Mall was one of the ministers deposed after the Restoration, and an account of his life and publications prefaces the second volume. Of particular interest to the Americanist is the prefatory essay to the first volume by Samuel Lee, minister of Bristol, New England. This copy preserves the original terminal blank for the first volume, as well as the half title for the second. The first volume was issued without a half title. As well, an extra leaf bearing the publisher's advertisement for three other titles appears at the end. This advertisement leaf is not noted in the collations given by Evans or Sabin. "A good specimen of American printing" - Sabin.

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