Bible events
Subtitle: first series
By: illustrated with pictures designed by Hans Holbein ; edited by Felix Summerly.
Contributors: Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895; Cole, Henry, Sir, 1808-1882; Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543; Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876 (printer); Chiswick Press
Series: Home treasury
Publisher: Joseph Cundall
Published: 1843
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: "The Home Treasury"--T.p.

"The Copyright of these Works is registered pursuant to Statute 5 and 6 Vic. c. 45."--T.p. verso.

"As the pictures in this book are very good, and have been thought so for a great many years, perhaps you may wish to know something about the person who made them.  It is just three hundred years ago since they were first known.*  *The present selection has been made from the "Icones Veteris Testamenti," being the complete work, in ninety subjects, reprinted by Mr. Pickering."--Preface.

Wood-engraved plates are printed in brown.  All are unsigned and all are with captions.

Includes decorative wood-engraved head-pieces and tail-pieces.

Part of "The Home Treasury" series of children's books produced by Henry Cole [pseud. "Felix Summerly"] and Joseph Cundall from 1843 to 1846.  Cf. McLean, Ruari.  Joseph Cundall, 1976 and McLean, Ruari.  Victorian book design and colour printing, 1972.

MASS copy: Bound in half red morocco and red rib-grain cloth; a.e.g.  Spine and edges of morocco tooled in gold.  Bound with "Bible events : second series." (see McLean D 0087).