Curious Hieroglyphick Bible: Or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, Represented with Emblematical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth.

By Isaiah Thomas

Book Overview

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. Only four copies of this remarkable piece of early Americana exist today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557099588
• ISBN13: 9781557099587
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Applewood Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 3.9" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7