Martyrs

1878 · 61753 — Geneva: Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick 1878. Folio. 213 3 pp. Woodcut engraved printer’s device on title text woodcut engraving decorated initials. Publisher’s softcovers w/ original printed d.j. folded over on verso printer’s device for Fick on back cover still NF/VG uncut and unopened copy. First edition 1 of 200 copies printed of this work on the Five Protestant Martyrs of Lyon -- five southern French theology students held for a year and burned at the stake May 16 1553 for attempting to proselytize the Protestant faith. Taken from Crespin’s 1619 “Histoire des martyrs†with an appendix of documents from the library of Saint Gall this work outlines the lives and fate of Martial Alba Pierre Escrivain Bernard Seguin Charles Favre and Pierre Naviheres. Their skillful defense using their deep Biblical knowledge against the inquisitors and Roman Catholic theologians became legendary. Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick, paperback