1761 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Press Publishes the First Children's Bible in America. Riviere Binding! Reformer Part of this present work's

Part of this present work's importance is in the way it handled one of the common pieces of argumentation in favor of slavery

67pp + imprimatur

Very fine woodcut of Samuel Wesley

The Williamses returned in 1834 to Britain

' This is far from the flight of imagination

1761 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Press Publishes the First Children's Bible in America. Riviere Binding! Reformer Part of this present work'sAn exceptionally rare work, the present is the first Children's Bible published in America, and issued by Benjamin Mecom, nephew to Benjamin Franklin. Mecom himself was apprenticed under Franklin, but struggled with business and with mental illness. It is recorded that he worked the press in full powdered wig and ruffles and was the "queerest" of the printers in Boston. The present work was conceived in 1757 and apparently ready for press in 1758, but