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(JUVENILE). (BIBLE). A New Hieroglyphical Bible for the Amusement & Instruction of Children...Embellished with Familiar Figures & Striking Emblems Elegantly Engraved. To the whole is added a Sketch of the life of Our Blessed Saviour, the Holy Apostles &c. Recommended by the Revd. Rowland Hill. M.A. New York: Printed for & Published by the Booksellers, 1796. 18mo. 144 pp. Extensively illustrated. Recent cloth backed boards. Engraved title page. Lacks frontispiece. Small replacement at inner margin, top of title page, just affecting the "H". Corners frayed on a number of early leaves. Text browned. Sound. No childish scrawls. $1,250.00

Welch 513.2. Evans 30668. Not in Rosenbach. The very scarce second edition, first published in 1794 (see Rosenbach 181). Neither edition in Rumball-Petre.

 

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