12mo. 72pp. Illustrated throughout with numerous small wood engravings, interspersed with text, and with the key printed in the lower margin. Hieroglyphic Bibles flourished in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century as a teaching tool to help young children learn important Bible verses and lessons. "Children . . . take great delight in pictures," notes W.A. Clouston in his book Hieroglyphic Bibles: Their Origin and History. The illustrations, or "hieroglyphs," function as fill-in-the-blanks, whereby a sentence is furthered or completed by the child naming the object pictured. The brief introduction to the present example similarly encourages its young readers to "endeavor to make out the signification of the engravings, before he refers to the correct and historical reading given at the bottom of the page." This title, like many books published by the Mozley firm, is uncommon—known in three institutional holdings, only one of which is in North America. Some splits to spine, with small losses to ends, else near fine in green printed wrappers.