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1761 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Press Publishes the First Children's Bible in America. Riviere Binding! Reformer the Constitution of the AfricanAn exceptionally rare work, the present is the first Children's Bible published in America, and issued by Benjamin Mecom, nephew to Benjamin Franklin. Mecom himself was apprenticed under Franklin, but struggled with business and with mental illness. It is recorded that he worked the press in full powdered wig and ruffles and was the "queerest" of the printers in Boston. The present work was conceived in 1757 and apparently ready for press in 1758, but