The Line Letter Bible, volumes 1–2
BIB.001896.1-.2
Bible - Printed Book
1898
United States
English
Printed on Paper
14.5 × 12.5 × 3.7 in. (36.8 × 31.8 × 9.5 cm)
On View in The History of the Bible, Bibles for Everyone
This Bible was published by Samuel Gridley Howe and was one of the first to print the text in raised letters so that people with visual impairments could read it. Howe was a physician, abolitionist, reformer, and husband of Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” He became an advocate for the education of the blind and, in 1829, became the founding director of the famous Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. He developed a “line letter” system that allowed people to read by running their fingers over English words that were raised off the surface of the page. He printed his first “line letter” Bible in 1842. This later copy was published in 1898 by the American Bible Society using the same technique.
Printed in 1898 by the American Bible Society, New York City, New York. Acquired by 2010 by Gene Albert (Christian Heritage Museum), Hagerstown, Maryland; Privately purchased in 2010 by Green Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Donated in 2022 to The Signatry, Overland Park, Kansas, under the curatorial care of Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.[1]
Notes: [1] The Green Collection donated volume II to the National Christian Foundation (later The Signatry) in 2016 and volume I in 2022.
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