255 printed pages in 16s. 14 plates. 2 title-pages. Adomeit locates just 2 copies existing (Guildhall, and Bodleian Libraries). Lacks leaf E16 or pages 159-60. Two plates misplaced and poorly attached. Three misprinted page numbers (168, 169, and 249 - incorrectly printed 198, 269, and 259). 34 x 40 mm. Original brown calf; spine with four raised bands with double horizontal ruled gilt lines. Adam, 156-64. Adomeit, B18. Bondy, 33. Spielmann, 16 for later imprint. Welsh, 1005. OCLC, 37225541. WorldCat locates seven copies worldwide, some of them imperfect (British Library, Cambridge, Oxford, Providence, Princeton, Indiana, and San Diego). Much rarer than Newberry. Exceedingly rare abridged children's Bible in its original binding, Hariss's Bible in Miniature is the second of its kind in England, preceded only by the 1727 Biblia printed for R. Wilkin (the date being altered by hand to 1728 in many copies). William Harris was a bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard in London and published the sermons of John Wesley from 1770 to 1775.




















