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Martyrdom of a French bookseller in Avignon: tied to the stake with books bound around his neck a man raises his hands toward heaven while a priest attends to him and a man stokes the fire of the pyre. Etching by Dodd.
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Martyrdom of a French bookseller in Avignon: tied to the stake with books bound around his neck a man raises his hands toward heaven while a priest attends to him and a man stokes the fire of the pyre. Etching by Dodd.

Dodd

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Lettering: Engraved for the Revd. Dr. Southwell's New Book of Martyrs. A bookseller burnt at Avignon for selling bibles in the French tongue with some of them tied around his neck. Dodd delin.

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