Beware! Fox's Book of Martyrs: A Universal History of Christian Martyrdom, 1835 curioisity The board is old and

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

and 2nd half 19th c seems right

While I usually gravitate toward older carvings

and which I found in the same place

with a horizontal band of diamond shapes around the center

Beware! Fox's Book of Martyrs: A Universal History of Christian Martyrdom, 1835 curioisity The board is old andNot 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