Beware! Fox's Book of Martyrs: A Universal History of Christian Martyrdom, 1835 curioisity While I usually gravitate toward

While I usually gravitate toward older carvings

Titled at lower left

not much at all

The board is old and shows cracking to the surface of the wood

with an early incarnation of the lettering still visible under the current hand-painted version

Beware! Fox's Book of Martyrs: A Universal History of Christian Martyrdom, 1835 curioisity While I usually gravitate towardNot for the faint of heart! But pretty amazing! And made even better by the warning on the first page, in lieu of a cover: "To The Reader Beware if you are found with this Book in your possession you are in danger. Please be carefull [sic]." Plus symbolic representations of Pope Alexander and Christ. And then, just after the title page: "Please preserve. This is the last copy in existence," noted by Phil S. Heuss in 1942. Wow! A little research tells