Sanford, Mrs. D. P. The Little Child's Bible Picture Book, Part I. New-York: Gen. Protestant Episcopal S. S. Union and Church Book Society, 1871. [11993]
Russet cloth, spine plain, front bordered in black with title and applied illustration in colors, back bordered in blind, 4 1/2 x 3 inches. Yellow end papers, lacking the first free front end paper. 88 generally clean pp. with many small wood engravings in the text. Good. Hardcover.
"St. Johnland Stereotype Foundry, Suffolk Co., N. Y." on copyright page.
The illustrations are duplicates from The Church Primer.
Stories to be read to children, taken from the Holy Scriptures.
"Dear little children, you can tell me what holy Book this is, I know; for you have seen such a one, many a time. And I daresay you know that God has given us this holy Book, that we may hear it, and read it, and learn its blessed words, and lay them up in our hearts; that they may do us good." - p. 5.
Eleven stories beginning with Creation and ending with Balaam and his donkey.
The author, Emma Bartow Lewis Sanford (1829-1912) a prolific author of children's stories, all published by the Protestant Episcopal Church. She was the wife of the Episcopal clergyman & Union Civil War chaplain Rev. David Platt Sanford (1819-1883).
