Rare two-volume set of Hadley's Victorian retellings of the two testaments' greatest hits, for the young and young at heart.
Very good.
Price: $250.00
"To have only wicked men and devils for company — how awful! This sad end need not be yours."
Surprisingly scarce early US edition of Hadley's adaptations of stories from the Old and New Testaments, improved and fortified with added piety for the edification of young children. Received with some displeasure in its own day for its presumption; a contemporary review in Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine disapproves of the author's rearrangements: "We do not think it good to paraphrase the Bible, or to attempt to clothe its histories in other language." On the other hand, if Hadley's version is not an improvement on the poetic language of the King James version, it is at least substantially shorter.
New York: Sheldon & Company, 1865. Stories of old or Bible narratives suited to the capacity of young children. First series - Old Testament [with] Second Series - New Testament. Two volumes, 6.75'' x 4.5'' each. Original plum cloth, gilt-decorated spines. Yellow endpapers. Each volume illustrated with 6 engravings. 238 and 234, [6] pages respectively. Spines and upper edges heavily sunned. Worming to joints, binding otherwise sound. Mild foxing scattered throughout. Small paper labels mounted to front free endpapers, numbering these volumes 26 and 27.
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