192 pages. First edition (second edition has full-stop on title-page after 'Shepard'). Original cream endpapers. Contemporary pencil inscription on front paste-down endpaper. 50 x 60 mm. Original green cloth. Both covers blind-stamped with central decoration as well as intricate border. Spine has 'Holy Bible' in gilt at top, lower half is plain. Adam, 263. Adomeit, A133. Welsh, 1107. OCLC, 56992358. WorldCat locates 24 copies worldwide. Similar in structure and diction to the Thumb Bible by A Lady of Cincinnati's The Child's Bible. Stereotyped plates by Shepard, Oliver & Co., used in a Worcester: Dorr, Howland & Co. ed. with 1835 copyright (Adomeit A85). Plates from these matrices apparently used ca. 1835-1870.










