An abridgement of the sacred history of Jesus Christ and his apostles : containing the most striking passages in the New Testament : adapted to the understanding of the meanest capacities, and design'd for the improvement of Christian knowledge : illustrated with sixty headpiece hot airs, curiously engrav'd on copper plates, and expressing the subject of each passage.

Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Printed & sold by Edwd. Ryland, in the Old Bailey, MDCCLXVI [1766]
Description
120 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (copper-engravings) ; 18 cm (12⁰)

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Bookseller
Engraver
Illustrator
Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
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Multi-title collection including 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 and 1 other(s).
Notes
  • "Price bound 2s. 6d." --At foot of title page.
  • Illustrations: Engraved pictorial bookplate, engraved frontispiece, signed by Wale and Grignion, engraved pictorial titlepage and dedicatory letter to the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. and 56 numbered plates, each accompanied by prose text below.
  • Cotsen copy: Illustrations hand-colored.
  • Cotsen copy: Inscribed within pictorial bookplate: "Elizabeth Bentham."
  • Signatures: [A]² B-F¹².
With
Bound with: "An abridgement of scripture history" (Ryland, [1765]).
References
  • English short title catalogue, N29139
  • Osborne Collection of early children's books, page 751
In
Multi-title collection including 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 and 1 other(s).
OCLC
1100359858
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