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[BERGER, George]. The essentials of Sacred Biography.

London. G. Berger, [s.d., c. 1830]
16mo. 16pp. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked.
'Judas Iscariot, one of the apostles of Jesus: be [sic] betrayed his Lord, and afterwards hanged himself'.

An apparently unrecorded juvenile chapbook, providing succinct biographical sketches of prominent Biblical figures, including Abraham, David, Job, and Noah. It was issued as the seventh number in printer and bookseller George Berger's (1796- 1868) one-penny 'Elementary' series, which encompassed twenty- three didactic titles, predominantly devotional and scientific.
£ 200.00 Antiquates Ref: 34222