The Worth of a Bible, Illustrated by Tales in Verse, Founded on Fact. For The Use of Young Persons, And Sunday Schools

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Hardcover. 24mo (5.5" x 3.75"), later crude linen re-back, blue printed paper over boards. Some b&w illus. throughout. Early ownership in ink on front pastedown "Eliz. Barnes Badby, 1817" ; ink on rear paste-downs reads "ask the g. of November 1817." 46 pp. CONDITION: Good, paper on front cover partially torn but still attached, some holes in spine but doesn't damage integrity, pages age-worn with some foxing throughout. A scarce volume of various moral tales and verses compiled for children by a minister to "engage.[their] minds to esteem and regard the sacred Volume" with the hope that children will not read it "merely as a School-book, but as the Word of Truth, which is calculated to promote your temporal and everlasting welfare." Includes the abolitionist poem "Vasa, or the Happy Negro.". N° de ref. del artículo 8297

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