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HIEROGLYPHICK BIBLE;

O R,

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 pleafing and diverting Manner, with early Ideas of the Holy Scriptures.

TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED,

A fhort AccoUNT of the LIVES of the EVANGELISTS, and other Pieces, illuftrated with CUTS.

THE EIGHTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for T. HODGSON, in George's-Court, St. John's-Lane, Clerkenwell.

MDCCXC.

[Price ONE SHILLING bound. ]

Entered at Stationers-Hall agreeable to Act of Parliament.

1410 f-276

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PARENTS, GUARDIANS,

AND

GOVERNESSES,

O F

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,

THIS

HIEROGLYPHICK BIBLE

IS HUMBLY INSCRIBED,

BY

Their most obedient

Humble Servant,

The AUTHOR.

EMBLEM S

O F

MORTALITY;

Representing, in upwards of FIFTY CUTS,
DE A TH

SEIZING ALL RANKS AND DEGREES OF
PEOPLE;

Imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominican Church at BASIL, in Switzerland:

With an APOSTROPHE to each, tranflated from the Latin and French.

and French.

Intended as well for the Information of the CURIOUS, as the Inftruation and Entertainment of YOUTH.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A copious PR E F A C E, containing an historical Account of this Subject, and its Paintings, now or lately exilting in divers Parts of Europe.

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Printed for T. HODGSON. in George,s Court, St. John's Lane,

Clerkenwell; and fold by the Bookfellers in Town and
Country,

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