Accession number
PML 88019-28
Published
London : Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane for M. Jones, no. 1, Paternoster-Row, 1802.
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Printer's imprint also on last page of each volume.
Volumes housed in a wooden box resembling a book case with illustration affixed to sliding removable front cover. Illustration shows a book case at the top displaying the titles in the boxed set. Below is the title "The Yound Christians Library" with an image of women bringing their children to Christ, who holds a baby on his lap, with the caption below: "Suffer little children to become unto me and forbid them not". Inside the box is lined with silk, with a top compartment for the volumes, and drawer beneath.
Publisher's issued wooden book box housed in a cloth-covered board box in 1/4 red morocco, stamped in gold by Julia P. Wightman.
Publisher's advertisements, p. [63] of "Catalogue of remarkable scripture names"; p. [64] of "Preservative from the sins and follies of childhood and youth".
Volumes housed in a wooden box resembling a book case with illustration affixed to sliding removable front cover. Illustration shows a book case at the top displaying the titles in the boxed set. Below is the title "The Yound Christians Library" with an image of women bringing their children to Christ, who holds a baby on his lap, with the caption below: "Suffer little children to become unto me and forbid them not". Inside the box is lined with silk, with a top compartment for the volumes, and drawer beneath.
Publisher's issued wooden book box housed in a cloth-covered board box in 1/4 red morocco, stamped in gold by Julia P. Wightman.
Publisher's advertisements, p. [63] of "Catalogue of remarkable scripture names"; p. [64] of "Preservative from the sins and follies of childhood and youth".
Description
10 v. : engraved frontispieces ; 9 cm; book case: 17 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Publisher's colored wrappers (yellow, blue, green, faded red or pink) with printed white cover labels. In the original wooden bookcase, with pictorial sliding lid (the titles of the ten books are clearly visible on the bookcase front label, verifying the completeness of the set).
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