Brace, Jonathan. Scripture Portraits; or, Sketches of Bible Characters, especially designed for the Family Circle. New York: M. W. Dodd, 1854. First Edition. [10799]
Blind stamped publisher's cloth, spine faded to brown, 7 x 5 inches, small repair to fraying at top of backstrip. 1868 private bookplate. 341 pages, light foxing, some page edges bumped. Good. Hardcover.
Twenty-two biographies of Bible persons, each appearing in print previously in The Mother's Magazine and Family Monitor.
These would made a sound basis for personal study, a series of sermons or Sunday-school classes, or a Bible study group.
Rev. Jonathan Brace (1810-1877), b. & D. at Hartford, Conn. Brace was educated at Andover, Yale, and Princeton and became the pastor of two Congregational Churches in Connecticut, Litchfield and Milford.
