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An Abridgement of Scripture history : designed for the amusement and improvement of children : wherein the most striking actions in the Old Testament are made plain to the youngest capacities : adorned with head peices [sic] expressive of the subject of each narrative, curiously engraved on 60 copper plates, and dedicated to the infant Bishop of Osnaburg / by an eminent divine.

Accession number
PML 86689.1
Published
London : Printed & sold by Edwd. Ryland, in the Old Bailey, MDCCLXV [i.e. 1765]
Credit line
Gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Engraved title-page with vignette.
Frontispiece by C. Grignion after S. Wale; "published according to Act of Parliament, 1765."
Fifty six numbered plates; each accompanied by prose text.
Description
[4], 112 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm
Provenance
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary green morocco, gilt.
Classification
Book
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Department
Printed Books