[AMERICAN BINDINGS] BROWN, J[ohn] Newton (ed)

Fessenden & Co.'s Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge; or, Dictionary of the Bible, Theology, Religious Biography, All Religions, Ecclesiastical History, and Missions...to which is added a Missionary gazeteer...by Rev. B.B. Edards...Illustrated by Wood Cuts, Maps and Engravings on Copper and Steel...

Brattleboro: Brattleboro Typographic Co, 1837. Third (?) ed. Thick quarto (27cm). Contemporary gilt panelled calf, marbled endpapers and page edges; vi,[7]-1275,[5]pp; engraved frontispiece, extra-title, and 22 inserted leaves of plates on thick paper, engraved on both wood and steel, of which four are maps. Two leaves of plates are printed on pink stock. Numerous vignette woodcut text illustrations. Front joint cracked through but holding; faint crazing to leather on spine; scattered foxing and soil; complete and quite Good.

Compendious Bible dictionary assembled by Rev. John Newton Brown (1803-1868), a New Hampshire Baptist minister best remembered as the compiler of the New Hampshire Confession of Faith (1833). Of the current work, DAB states that though "...it has been superseded by later and larger works...for a time it was used widely." A quite lovely early American publisher's binding (binder not identified). RINDERKNECHT 43439, noting further editions in 1835, 1836, 1838 and 1839.

Price: $250.00

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