Author: COHEN STUART, M. (EDITOR),
Title: Beelden uit de Heilige Schrift. Chromolithographieën naar Gustave Doré bewerkt volgens de teekening eener onze eerste kunstnaars. [Eerste, enige druk/first and only edition].
Description: 's-Gravenhage, IJkema, 1875. Recent cloth with new endpapers. [2] (preface by editor], 192pp. With 24 fine chromolithographed plates, adapted after Gustave Doré by an unidentified dutch draughtsman, original bible-text occasionally quoted at end of each story. NOT called-for in Royal Dutch Library, KB. A collection of 24 synoptical stories taken from the Old Testament, partly with original bible-texts at end of some stories, edited and popularized by M. Cohen Stuart, on behalf of dutch children and adults. Each story is preceded by a fine chromolithographed plate, edited and adapted AFTER Gustave Doré by an unidentified dutch draughtsman. Plates with fresh colouring, complete. Good untrimmed copy, well preserved. Rare. (bound in recent cloth with new endpapers, address in bold hand in ms. in ink on verso of ti.-p., tiny hole in blank area of ti.-p., skilfully restored with clearview acidfree tape).

Keywords: holy bible stories synopsis religion christianity gustave doré chromolithography children adults old testament genesis culture heritage