Hieroglyphic Bibles: Their Origin and History. A hitherto Unwritten Chapter of Bibliography. With Facsimile Illustrations…and A New Hieroglyphic Bible told in Stories by Frederick A. Laing.
Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, 1894.
4to, xvi, 316 pp. followed by Frederick Laing's colored hieroglyphic Bible, consisting of 94 plus 184 mounted plates, four to a page, comprising stories from the Old and New Testaments. Original tan linen buckram over beveled boards, decoratively stamped in gilt and black. Top edge gilt. Edges of boards a bit browned. Near fine in the original blue cloth printed dust jacket which has light edge wear.
§ First edition of the definitive study, and in itself a fascinating and beautiful book. “A hieroglyphic Bible replaces some of the words of the text with pictures in an attempt to tell a story in a direct, simple, and interesting way. Such Bibles became very popular in the late eighteenth century as an easy means of teaching the Scripture to the young.” The study begins with the first German Bible of 1687 and continues up to 1893. The reproduction at the end of Laing's colored hieroglyphic Bible is especially well executed and most useful for study of the usual symbols of the time. Item #102828
Price: $950.00