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

Published

Hartford : Published by Silas Andrus, 1825.

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.

Description

133, [1] pages : illustrations ; 15 cm

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."

Binding

Quarter leather over scaleboard covered in brown paper.

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books