A curious 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
A curious 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
Language:
English
Contributor:
Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books
Call number:
Hamilton 122s
Eng 18 18404
Electronic Resource
Extent:
viii pages, 9-144 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 14 cm
Format:
Book
Type:
Juvenile literature
Wooden Boards (Binding)
Leather bindings (Binding)
Inscriptions (Provenance) --18th century
Inscriptions (Provenance) --19th century
Picture Bibles
Early works to 1800
Description:
Page 135 misnumbered as "235."
Princeton copy 1 : Inscribed on front pastedown: "Bot [sic] of a Jew (?) at [illegible] ... I gave one dollar for his book, Feb., 1861," and below that, in possibly another hand, "Mme. Blanchard."
Princeton copy 3: Inscribed on front free endpaper recto: "Nathanial Thomas."
Princeton copy 1: Bookplate of Sinclair Hamilton on front pastedown.
Princeton copy 2: Bookplate of Sinclair Hamilton on front pastedown.
Publisher:
Worcester, Massachusetts : Printed ... by Isaiah Thomas, and sold, wholesale and retail, at his bookstore, MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Subject:
Bible—Picture Bibles—Early works to 1800
Hieroglyphic Bibles—Early works to 1800
Rebuses
Poetry, Modern—18th century
Juvenile literature—18th century
Wooden Boards (Binding)
Leather bindings (Binding)
Inscriptions (Provenance) --18th century
Inscriptions (Provenance) --19th century
Date:
1788
References:
Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), no. 122
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 128
Alternative:
Select passages in the Old and New Testaments
Holy Bible
Hieroglyph Bible
Indexed by:
Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 510
Edition:
The first Worcester edition
Printer:
Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831
Binding note:
Princeton copy 1 : Contemporary full dark brown sheep, blind-ruled on spine.
Princeton copy 2 : Quarter sheep with plain tan paper-covered boards.
Princeton copy 2 : Paper worn off boards in places, revealing the original wooden boards underneath.
Princeton copy 3 : Contemporary full dark brown sheep.
Princeton copy 3 : Rebacked in gilt-stamped brown leather.