12mo. 160pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. Rubbed, slight loss to head of sunned spine.

An early nineteenth century edition of Hannah More's (1745-1833) remarkably popular poetic, pedagogical, adaptation of Old Testament tales for a juvenile readership, including 'Moses in the Bulrushes', 'David and Goliath', and 'Daniel'. First published in 1782, the work contributed to Samuel Johnson dubbing the author the most 'powerful versificatrix in the English language'.