Twenty-Four Discourses on Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion..
- Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1795
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1795. Very Good -. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1795. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); full contemporary sheep, brown gilt spine label; ix,[10]-519,[1]pp. (collated complete). Leather scuffed and worn, small rectangular loss of leather mid-upper cover, top third of front free endpaper clipped, attractive contemporary library ex libris of the Ellsworth Library to front pastedown, else a Good or better, internally clean and sound copy.
Concludes with lengthy list of nearly nine hundred subscribers, including such post-Revolution luminaries as Barnabas Bidwell, Timothy Dwight, Ezra Stiles, Noah Webster, but just fifteen women.
The detailed ex libris provides an excellent but also truly complex window into the early post-Revolutionary circulating library: "THIS BOOK may be drawn, or returned, on the third THURSDAY of every Month; two hours preceding sunset....Quarterly Library days are the third Thursday of January, April, July, and October; when this Book must be returned, by three o'clock, afternoon...Penalty for lending this Book, ONE DOLLAR: --for tearing a Leaf, not less than SIX CENTS: --for breaking or bruising the Cover; turning down a Leaf; soiling or defacing, not less than THREE CENTS; and more if the Librarian shall adjudge." And so forth.
ESTC W31452; EVANS 29298; TRUMBULL 1237.
Concludes with lengthy list of nearly nine hundred subscribers, including such post-Revolution luminaries as Barnabas Bidwell, Timothy Dwight, Ezra Stiles, Noah Webster, but just fifteen women.
The detailed ex libris provides an excellent but also truly complex window into the early post-Revolutionary circulating library: "THIS BOOK may be drawn, or returned, on the third THURSDAY of every Month; two hours preceding sunset....Quarterly Library days are the third Thursday of January, April, July, and October; when this Book must be returned, by three o'clock, afternoon...Penalty for lending this Book, ONE DOLLAR: --for tearing a Leaf, not less than SIX CENTS: --for breaking or bruising the Cover; turning down a Leaf; soiling or defacing, not less than THREE CENTS; and more if the Librarian shall adjudge." And so forth.
ESTC W31452; EVANS 29298; TRUMBULL 1237.