The Union Bible Dictionary: Prepared for the American Sunday-School Union, and Revised by the Committee of Publication.
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1842. 643 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings and maps. 24mo. Quarterbound morocco over marble paper-covered boards. Revised edition. Spine ends and boards rubbed, tear to rear free endpaper, endpapers foxed, leaves clean, impressions crisp, binding tight; a nice copy and about very good. Item #24922
Copyright statement is dated 1838 and this title was listed in American Sunday-School Union catalogues from 1840 to at least 1893. Not in Checklist American Imprints. Founded in Philadelphia in May of 1817, the Union began as a coalition of local Protestant Sunday school groups. "American Sunday School Union (ASSU) provided the materials and training by which many frontier adults and children learned to read while promoting the establishment of Sunday schools throughout the nation. The Union's goals were to promote the establishment of Sunday schools and to provide local communities with libraries and materials for religious instruction. From the beginning, this was a non-denominational organization that set aside differences in doctrine to teach the masses the cardinal truths of Christianity."
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