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Subject(s)

• Catholic Church—Controversial literature [Browse]
• English language—Study and teaching—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Torture—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Persecution—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Propaganda—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Notes

• Added title-page with imprint: "London: Printed by T.B. and are to be sold by Enoch Prosser..., 1680."
• Text continuous despite pagination gap; catchword on p. 96 (E6) matches the first word on p. 109 (F1).
• Dedication "To the Protestant nobility, gentry, and commonality of England" on leaf A4
• Text set in roman font with some Bible selections in black letter.
• Title-page continues: " ...together with a brief and true account of the bloody persecutions, massacres, plots, treasons, and most inhumane tortures comitted by Papists upon Protestants, for near six hundred years past..."
• Illustrations: Two-page frontispiece, each with a printed "explanation" on verso side: "The King sitting on his throne..." and "The Pope with his Triple Crown and mitre falling [off]..." seated under a canopy labeled "Blasphemy".
• "Brief and true account of the cruelties and persecutions..." begins on page 61 and includes 6 pages of small engraved vignettes (included in pagination) picturing various atrocities, 6 or 8 to a page, including the Massacre at Paris.
• Signatures: A-D¹² E⁶ F-I¹² K⁶.

Binding note

Contemporary limp dark brown sheep, cover and spine blind-ruled, with a central blind-stamped rose on each cover.

References

• ESTC, R39367
• Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), C4437

Other title(s)

• Protestant schoolmaster
• Protestant=schoolmaster
• Plain and easie directions for spelling and reading English
• Brief and true account of the cruelties and persecutions committed by the Papists
• Brief and true account of the bloody persecutions, massacres, plots, treasons, and most inhumane tortures comitted by the Papists upon Protestants

OCLC

863295337

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