The hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth : designed chiefly to familiarize tender age, in a pleasing and diverting manner with early ideas of the Holy Scriptures : to which are subjoined, a short account of the lives of the evangelists, and other pieces : illustrated with nearly five hundred cuts.

Accession number:

PML 83771

Uniform title:

Bible. English. Authorized. Selections. 1825.

Published:

Hartford : Published by Silas Andrus, 1825.

Description:

133, [1] pages : illustrations ; 15 cm

Notes:

Illustrated half-title.
Poem "On the incomparable treasures of the Holy Scriptures": p. [8].
Originally published in London in 1783 as "A curious hieroglyphick Bible ..."
Text and illustrations printed within border.
Questions and answers: p. 132-[134].
Wood-engravings: half-title, frontispiece, text illustrations.
Includes preface.

Binding:

Quarter leather over scaleboard covered in brown paper.

Variant Title:

Select passages in the Old and New Testaments

Provenance:

Lydia Stafford Angell, signature and inscription: "the property of Lydia Stafford Angell of Providence Rhodeisland, Providence Plantation. In the year of our Lord 1880."

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