RELIGIOUS EMBLEMS illustrating DIVINE TRUTH rare antique old John Warner Barber

  
Rare hard to find early antique edition. With gold lettering and decoration on spine, book would look great grouped with other antique books displayed on your shelf! Book measures 6 1/2 tall. Please look at photos to help determine condition. John Warner Barber (February 2, 1798 June 1885) was an American. Whose books of state, national, and local history featured his vivid illustrations, said. To have caught the flavor and appearance of city, town, and countryside scenes in his day. Barber was born in East Windsor.

And learned his craft from the East Windsor printmaker Abner Reed. In 1823 he opened a business in New Haven, where he produced religious and historical books, illustrated with his own wood and steel engravings. He traveled around Connecticut, creating ink sketches of town greens, hotels, schools, churches, and harbors and collected local history as he went. He also delved into the works of historians.

From all this he produced the book now commonly called Connecticut Historical Collections. The full title is Connecticut Historical Collections, Containing a General Collection of Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc. Relating to the History and Antiquities of Every Town in Connecticut with Geographical Descriptions. The book has been called the first popular local history published in the U. Barber started with rough pencil sketches and developed them into more detailed wash drawings.

He then transferred the drawings directly to small blocks of boxwood on which he engraved the designs. The illustrations depict each town center, with its homes and churches, academies and courthouses sailboats plying a river or harbor, an occasional factory belching puffs of smoke and always a tiny figure or two, often the artist in his top hat, sketching the scene or pointing to the view. He died in New Haven.

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The item "RELIGIOUS EMBLEMS illustrating DIVINE TRUTH rare antique old John Warner Barber" is in sale since Wednesday, July 17, 2013. This item is in the category "Books\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "scottalbertson" and is located in Nellysford, Virginia. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Subject: Christianity, morals, religion
• author: William Holmes, John W Barber
• Religious emblems being a series of: Emblematic engravings with explanations
• observations and religous reflections: designed to illustrate Divine Truth
• in accordance with the cardinal: principles of Christianity