Error’s Chains: How Forged and Broken (page 1/2)

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[picture: Front Cover]

Pictures from Error’s Chains: How Forged and Broken by Frank S. Dobbins, with Isaac Hollister Hall (1837 – 1896) and Samuel Wells Williams (1812 – 1884); I have the thirty-eigth edition, from 1884.

See the Title Page for the full title. This is an example of a genre of books illustrating religions of the world and religious practices from history, often somewhat fancifully, supposedly so people could see how bad they were.

Title: Error’s Chains: How Forged and Broken

Author: Dobbins, Frank Stockton

Published by: Standard Publishing House

City: New York

Date: 1884

Total items: 4

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

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[picture: Gods of our Saxon Ancestors.]

Gods of our Saxon Ancestors.

In the engraving, Thor is seated at a throne; he wears a crown and voluminous regal robes, and has a halo or stars. Woden is also crowned, and wears medieval armour. In the back, in statue niches, the Sun-god, the [...] [more...]

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[picture: Front Cover]

Front Cover

The front cover of this book has been somewhat damaged by having silver paint spilled on it at some time in its history. Before then, it was dark reddish brown with goild foil samped and black ink. [more...]

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[picture: Title Page, Error’s Chains]

Title Page, Error’s Chains

The title page is very typical for an 1880s reference work in the USA: [more...]

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[picture: Ancient Druidic Worship at Stonehenge, England]

Ancient Druidic Worship at Stonehenge, England

A fictional reconstruction of “druids” at an intact Stonehenge. [more...]

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Pictures from Error’s Chains: How Forged and Broken by Frank S. Dobbins, with Isaac Hollister Hall (1837 – 1896) and Samuel Wells Williams (1812 – 1884); I have the thirty-eigth edition, from 1884.

See the Title Page for the full title. This is an example of a genre of books illustrating religions of the world and religious practices from history, often somewhat fancifully, supposedly so people could see how bad they were.


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