A Copy of a Letter written by our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ [with King Agbarus's Letter, Christ's Cures and Miracles, and Lentulus's Epistle to the Senate of Rome]

[EPISTOLA JESU AD AGBARUM]. A Copy of a Letter written by our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Birmingham: J. Russell, Printer, 22, Moor-street, [c. 1814–1830]. Broadside, about 350 x 240 mm; large woodcut of the Crucifixion; the letter “found eighteen miles from Iconium,” with Christ’s Cures and Miracles, the Abgar letters and Lentulus’s description of Christ; within a border of cable ornaments; laid down on card. No other copy of this Birmingham edition located (BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, NLS, NLW, Univ. of Birmingham, Harvard). The Letter from Heaven as a household charm against lightning, pestilence and the dangers of childbirth, printed by Joseph Russell of Moor Street, convicted in 1819 for selling Hone’s Political Litany (VCH Warwickshire VII). Very good. Browned, splits along folds with small losses through woodcut and text, edges chipped with a strip lost from the right margin, border and imprint intact.