The Woodcutter of Lebanon; A Story; Illustrative of a Jewish Institution de MacDuff, John Robert]

London: James Nisbet & Co. 1854. (Hardcover) 107pp. Good to very good, no dust jacket. Blue cloth with embossed covers and gilt lettering and decoration to the cover and spine. Illustrations. The front free endpaper and title page are spotted, the edges are worn and the spine is slightly cocked. "The following pages are intended to illustrate on of the most interesting and expressive institutions under the Old Testament dispensation. The writer had, in the colloquial portions, to choose between adhering rigidly to the peculiarites of Oriental language and ancient Jewish converse, and modifying these, so as to accomodate them, so far at least, to modern modes of expression. Of the two, he has preferred the latter" - from the Preface. Locale: Lebanon. (Fiction, Bible Stories, Fiction, Jewish People, Old Testament).