File:A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible.jpg

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English: Pages 1 and 2 of "A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible", a 1788 American children's bible (not to be confused with a different bible with the same name published in London in 1784).
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Original publication: Published in 1788 in Worcester, Massachusetts, by Thomas

Immediate source: Library of Congress -- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar13.html
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Unknown, but the publisher was Isaiah Thomas (not the basketball player)

(Life time: 1749-1831, for Thomas)
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Besides the book being long out of copyright, the photo of the book is a work of the US federal government so even it was an artistic work and created a new copyright (it's not and it doesn't) it would still be in the public domain.

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