The Bible in Iron: Pictured Stoves and Stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans
Hardcover
1961 · Doylestown, Pennsylvania
by Mercer, Henry; Horace M. Mann; Joseph E. Sandford
Doylestown, Pennsylvania: The Bucks County Historical Society, 1961. Third edition. Hardcover. VG (Shows only minor wear, text block top shows light foxing or aging; otherwise clear.). Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine and front cover, gilt decoration on front cover, xvi, 256 pp. 409 bw illus. The title continues, notes on Colonial firebacks in the US, 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 US and Canada. Revised, corrected and enlarged by Horace M. Mann. With further amendments and additions by Joseph E. Sandford, editor. A lovely copy. Scarce. (Inventory #: 32752000001)