A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, Represented with Emblematical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth
(Bible, Hieroglyphick)
Edité par Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, 1788
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Numerous woodcut illustrations, including full-page frontispiece. 144pp. 12mo. A cornerstone for any collection of American children's books, American illustration, or American Bibles, this classic children's book is an American reprinting of the edition first published by Hodgson in London in 1783. Containing nearly 500 illustrations, it is the first Bible printed in the United States specifically for children. The rebus format of the small volume presents the young reader with famous Bible stories in an amusing format that encourages reading, puzzle solving, and Bible study. "A touchstone of eighteenth-century American book illustration, this 'curious' children's Bible contains nearly five hundred woodcuts made by American artists. The most ambitious woodcut book produced in America up to that time, it is one of the sixty-five children's book titles produced by the pioneer publisher of children's literature and preeminent early American printer Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831), who had learned the art of engraving while apprenticed in his youth to the Boston printer Zechariah Fowle" (American Treasures of the Library of Congress, online exhibition). Complete copies of the first hieroglyphic and children's Bible printed in America are very rare, with even Brinley's copy lacking a leaf. This is a book that saw extremely heavy use and, given its young audience, inevitable (if often loving) misuse. Welch 510; Rosenbach 128; Evans 20961; O'Callaghan, p.33; Hamilton 122; Rumball-Petre 167; Brinley 5805; Sabin 17990. Not in Hills Modern calf, red morocco lettering piece. Repair to final leaf affecting the final three lines, frontispiece paper-backed with repaired tears and small area of loss in the image, a few leaves likely supplied from another copy Numerous woodcut illustrations, including full-page frontispiece. 144pp. 12mo. N° de réf. du vendeur 375629
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Titre : A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; or, Select ...
Éditeur : Isaiah Thomas, Worcester
Date d'édition : 1788