The children of the Bible.
Contributors: Measom, William Frederick, fl. 1840s-1876; Thompson, John, 1785-1866; Kronheim & Co.; Religious Tract Society (London, England); Reed & Pardon
Publisher: Religious Tract Society
Published: 1850
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Bible stories, English -- Juvenile fiction.; Children in the Bible -- Juvenile fiction.; Christian life -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Notes: Date based on publisher's address and printer's address.  Cf. Brown, Philip A. H.  London publishers and printers, 1982.

T.p. and text printed within thin black rule border.

Plates printed within brown decorative double rule border.

All plates are unsigned but with imprints: "J. M. Kronheim & Co." and "London".

Plates are colour wood engravings produced using the "Baxter Process", with areas and lines that are printed with an intaglio metal plate.

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.  A few are signed "Measom" and one is signed "Thompson".

With the same setting of type and the same wood-engraved plates (with some differences in colour) as an edition of this title published [between 1862 and 1868] by the Religious Tract Society.  See McLean D 0194.

MASS copy: Bound in lime green ripple-grain paper-covered boards printed in blue and gold; a.e. speckled red.  Upper and lower covers printed with illustration similar to those within the text.  With yellow glazed endpapers.  With presentation inscription dated 1855.  With ownership inscription: "Sybil Hall. Churcham Vicarage".