The Bible in Iron: or, The Pictured Stoves and Stove Plates of the Pennsylvania Germans
Doylestown, Pennsylvania: The Bucks County Historical Society, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Brown paper wraps, 174 pp., 220 BW illus. G- (Ex-art library with some labels and bookplate and marks; outer spine material is missing and signatures are loosening; pages are clean; a candidate for rebinding.). Item #152346
Additional subtitle on title page: With Notes on Colonial Fire-Backs in the United Sttes, the Ten-Plate Stove, Franklin's Fireplace and the Tile Stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a List of Colonial Furnaces in the United States and Canada. A rare first edition of this singular work, examining the Bible-related scenes depicted on early stoves. This copy includes a paper reprint of an article from a 1903 issue of The Journal of Franklin Institute: "Decorated Stove-Plate, 1764, from West of the Susquehanna," by Charles F. Himes.
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