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

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The instance 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 represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.

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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

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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

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• 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

Publication

• Rochester, Published by William Alling, 1841

Note

• Illustrated half-title
• Text and illustrations printed within border
• Wood-engravings: half-title, frontispiece, text illustrations
• Poem "On the incomparable treasures of the Holy Scriptures": p. [8]
• Originally published in London in 1783 as "A curious hieroglyphick Bible..."
• Questions and answers: p. 130 and [2] pages following
• Includes preface
• Cf. Osborne Coll., p. 151
• Cf. Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 512.1-512.2
• Cf. Clouston. Hieroglyphic Bibles, p. 37

Dimensions

16 cm.

Edition

Fifth edition.

Extent

130, [2] p.

Note

Light brown ribbed cloth over boards, blocked in gold and blind.

Other physical details

ill.

Record ID

723640

System control number

• (OCoLC)09614506
• ucoclc9614506