The history of the Old and New Testament : interspersed with moral and instructive reflections, chiefly taken from the holy fathers. / From the French. By J. Reeve.

Accession number

PML 150518

Creator

Reeve, Joseph, 1733-1820.

Published

Philadelphia : Printed by M. Steiner, in Race-Street, for C. Talbot, late of Dublin, printer and bookseller, 1784.

Credit line

Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.

Notes

Error in paging: p. 436 misnumbered 536.
"Subscribers names."--p. [vii-viii].
A free translation of Nicolas Fontaine's La Bible de Royaument.

Description

vi, [2], 536 [i.e., 436] p. ; 20 cm

Provenance

From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.

Binding

18th-century, gilt-tooled full red morocco by Caleb Buglass of Philadelphia (see Hannah French, Caleb Buglass, Binder of the Proposed Book of Common Prayer, Philadelphia, 1786," Winterthur Portfolio 6 (1970), pp. 15-32, reprinted in Bookbinding in Early America, 1986, pp. 58-840. In a maroon brown oasis & cloth folding box by J.P.W., 1982.

Classification

Book

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