A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible
I collect old Bible leaves, but I also have a few other Bible items. This week I received A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth : designed chiefly to familiarize tender age, in a pleasing and diverting manner, with early ideas of the Holy Scriptures : to which are subjoined, a short account of the lives of the Evangelists, and other pieces, illustrated with cuts.
This was first printed in 1784 by Thomas Hodgson, but mine is the 13th edition, printed in London in 1796.1 I suppose this is the 200-year-old equivalent of a graphic novel. The Apocrypha as commonly printed between the Old and New Testaments then, so some of the passage come from that. I wasn’t able to find a scan of an old copy, but a modern version of A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible is available online.
