Jesus of Nazareth; His life and Teachings; Founded on the Four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manner, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of his times. With designs by Doré, De Laroche, Fenn, and others.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869. First Edition. 8vo, 7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches (200 x 134 mm); half title, engraved frontispiece and title page vignette, xv, 522 pp., 4 publisher adverts. Numerous engraved illustrations, maps, and vignettes throughout; tissue guards. Half-bound in tan calf with marbled boards and matching endpapers; marbled edges; spine gilt in compartments with red and black morocco spine labels. Pages clean with occasional foxing; binding tight with some scratches and losses to edges and corners.
PRESENTATION COPY inscribed and signed by the author in ink on first free endpaper, dated 13 Oct. 1880.
An illustrated biography of Jesus, drawn from the gospels but set in a social and historical by context Lyman Abbott (1835 –1922). Abbott was a lawyer, theologian, pastor, editor and author. Born in Roxbury, MA, he studied in New York and held pastoral positions in both Indiana and New York. He was Secretary to the American Union Commission (later American Freedmen’s Union Commission), 1865 – 1868, editor of the “Literary Record” in Harper’s Magazine, 1868 – 1879, and coeditor with Henry Ward Beecher of the Christian Union, later the Outlook, 1876 – 1922. He was warded doctorates of sacred theology from the University of the City of New York and from Harvard; a doctorate of law from Western Reserve University; a doctorate of divinity from Yale; and a doctorate of letters from Miami University.
Condition: Very good+.
Item number: 1726
Price: $500.00
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