The Patriot Preachers of the American Revolution. With biographical sketches. 1766-1783
New York: Printed for the Subscribers, 1860. Very Good. Item #27222
[New York]: Printed for the Subscribers, 1860. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, reddish-brown glazed endpapers; vi,[7]-368,11,[1]pp. Cloth a bit scuffed at extremities with brief exposure at corners, shallow losses at spine ends, faint horizontal repair to front pastedown and endpaper, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to the former, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.
Quite uncommon anthology of Revolutionary War sermons by the likes of Jonathan Mayhew, Samuel Langdon, and Samuel Stillman. Publisher's advertisements in rear mention a similar volume about to be published, "embracing the newspaper history of the American colonies, from the year 1750 until the commencement of 1775."
SABIN 59088.
Price: $250.00