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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.
183758493Brattleboro: Brattleboro Typographic Co 1837. Third ed. Thick quarto 27cm. Contemporary gilt panelled calf marbled endpapers and page edges; vi7-12755pp; engraved frontispiece extra-title and 22 inserted leaves of plates on thick paper both wood and steel engravings are used 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. <br /> <br /> 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 Of the current work DAB states that though ".it has been superseded by later and larger works.for a time it was used widely."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. Brattleboro Typographic Co unknown
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