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Young Bible reader.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Truman's entertaining and instructive toy books
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible stories, English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Truman & Spofford
- Contents:
- Adam and Eve
- Cain killed Abel
- Noah and the ark
- Lot fleeing from Sodom
- Abraham offering Isaac
- Joseph sold
- Pharaoh overwhelmed
- Catching quails
- Korah swallowed up
- Samson slaying a lion
- David and Goliath
- Elijah fed by ravens
- Bears tearing children
- Jonah thrown on shore
- Daniel in the lions' den
- Killing the children
- Lazarus raised
- Taken from the cross
- The widow's mite
- Peter denies Christ
- The youth who fell
- Paul before Felix
- The Bible [a poem].
- Notes:
- Twenty-two Bible stories, one per page, each illustrated with a wood engaving. Several engravings are by Alexander Anderson.
- In publisher's original tan illustrated wrappers.
- Truman and Spofford published from 1849 to 1859; see the AAS 19th century American children's book trade directory.
- Bible stories.
- Series title transposed from head of title page.
- Elizabeth D. Truman & Ainsworth R. Spofford published together as Truman & Spofford in Cincinnati between 1850 and 1859.
- In printed wrapper.
- Some wood engravings signed by Alexander Anderson.
- "The Bible"--in verse, p. 24.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162343462
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