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The new and complete life of our blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ: that great example, as well as Saviour of mankind ... / By Paul Wright, D.D. .. ; Embellished with the most elegant, valuable, and numerous set of large copper-plate prints ever published in a work of this kind: finely engraved from the original drawings of Hamilton, Chalmers, West, Samuel Wale, Esq. andc. by the best American artists.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wright, Paul, -1785, author.
Contributor:
Tanner, Benjamin, 1775-1848, engraver.
Rollinson, William, 1762-1842, engraver.
Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832, engraver.
Tisdale, Elkanah, 1768-1835, engraver.
Scoles, John, 1772?-1853, engraver.
Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, engraver.
Series:
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29928.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jesus Christ--Biography.
Jesus Christ.
John, the Baptist, Saint.
John.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Mary.
Apostles.
Genre:
Biographies.
Subscription lists (Publishing)
Press figures (Printing)
Physical Description:
1 online resource (427 id est, 428 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 30 unnumbered leaves of plates (one folded)) : illustrations, 1 map
Place of Publication:
New York: : --Printed and published by Birdsall and Menut, numbers 80, Cherry-Street.--, --Anno Domini 1795.--
System Details:
text file
Notes:
"First published in thirty numbers, of sixteen pages and an engraving, each. The completed volume bearing the date of the first number, although publication was not completed until 1796 or 1797. The Philadelphia edition differs from the New York edition only in its title page. the plates are from several sources ..."--Evans 29927.
Engravings by Benjamin Tanner, William Rollinson, Amos Doolittle, Elkanah Tisdale, John Scoles, and Alexander Anderson.
Printed in two columns; numerous errors in pagination. In some copies the pagination errors on pages 269, 289, 292 and 372 are corrected.
"Subscribers to The life of Christ."--p. [429-431].
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 29928).
Cited in:
Evans 29928
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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