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Collection: Four Centuries of Religious Books for Children
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BRB0883
James Sadler, a nine-year old boy, received this Bible from a charity created by Puritan politician Philip Wharton (1613–1696), the fourth Baron Wharton. The recipients of Bibles donated by Wharton were required to be able to read and memorize…
BRB0797
Fifty-year-old Ruth Brown recorded her name, noted that she received this book as a gift from her grandmother, and added reflections on her own mortality on the rear pastedown of this psalter. The classic companion to The New England Primer both…
AEY1754
A gift inscription in French (and a few words in Latin) from the author to two young girls and a boy is found in the first volume of this three-volume set of sermons for children.
BRB0956
A teacher inscribed this gift volume of brief moral tales to a student for work well done. Interesting Narratives for the Young is the first collected edition of moral tales consisting of the original sheets, including title pages, of four separate…
BRA0413
Bridwell Library's copy of this 1792 first edition of Mrs. Trimmer's abridged Old Testament includes inscriptions on the verso of the title page and the rear pastedown recording births between 1808 and 1822 in the family of Robert Liddle.
BRB0193
Measuring twelve feet in length, this remarkable continuous panorama of 24 connected leaves illustrates each of the 35 verses of Psalm 104. The work begins with an image of the psalmist, King David, covering his head in reverence to the Lord; at the…
BRB0620
This set of fifty volumes was published by the American Sunday-School Union in the mid-nineteenth century. The first twenty-five volumes each include two texts, with a separate title page and pagination for each work; the final twenty-five volumes…
BRB0454
This set of a dozen miniature books, all emphasizing Christian virtues, was published by the Sunday-School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church and issued in a printed paper-covered box. Bridwell Library's set is housed in its original box with a…
BRB0453
Issued as a set of twelve cards, there are individual cards for the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the genealogy of Christ's descent from Adam, and emblems designed to help students memorize specific biblical passages. Eight cards are devoted…
BRB0258
A booklet of explanatory text and fifty separate tinted engraved illustrations on forty-two cards depicting Jesus' birth, life, and resurrection chronologically.
BRB0190
The companion text volume to A Series of Prints of Scripture History. This volume provides brief introductions to episodes in the Bible from the Fall of Adam and Eve to Judas Maccabeus.
BRB0191
Thirty-two plates of illustrations of scripture history which were available to purchase in various formats.
BRB0438
The twenty-four wood engravings in this Thumb Bible are identical to images first published by J. and E. Phinney of Cooperstown, New York in 1825.
BRB0561
This London 1780 edition includes engraved title pages for both the entire volume and the New Testament, and an additional thirteen engraved plates. The 256-page text of brief biblical retellings includes scriptural references for each of the…
Prothro B-207
This London 1780 edition includes engraved title pages for both the entire volume and the New Testament, and an additional thirteen engraved plates. The 256-page text of brief biblical retellings includes scriptural references for each of the…
BRA0235
A paraphrase of the Old and New Testaments in verse.
BRB0669
A miniature book on church history and religion for Dutch children, this work was issued in two volumes with thirty-six engraved plates.
BRB0819
This unique, previously unrecorded devotional and instructional volume can be read in either of two directions. The rectos of each leaf are numbered and can be read sequentially while the versos are printed upside down and also numbered for reading…
BRB0796
William Fletcher wrote these hymns which he felt were better "adapted to the understandings, feelings, and perceptions of the young".
BRB0804
The sole edition of this selection of psalms and hymns is handsomely engraved and hand-colored throughout, with each song accompanied by a vignette and musical notation.
BRB0966
An early nineteenth-century English provincial edition of Isaac Watts' Divine Songs.
BRB0945
In addition to psalms and hymns, the collection includes an opening section of twenty-eight "sentences sung by the orphans when the minister enters the chapel," consisting of brief excerpts from psalms. The appendix to the work includes five hymns by…
BRB0795
A revised and edited version of Watts' Divine Songs. This second edition of these revisions, with an advertisement dated October 23, 1787, includes twenty-seven hymns, short religious texts (including the Ten Commandments) in verse, seven songs, two…
BRA2361
This printing of Divine Songs by Watts includes twenty-eight songs for children, six hymns, eight additional "moral songs," and brief instructional texts in verse.
BRA2357/A
The first edition of this entirely engraved psalm and hymn book, to be used by the orphans in The Foundling Hospital's musical services, includes twenty-nine psalms, sixteen hymns, and seven anthems.
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