RELIGION IN AMERICA; OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS , RELATION TO THE STATE AND PRESENT CONDITION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES WITH NOTICES OF THE UNEVANGELICAL DENOMINATIONS
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. Brown embossed publishers cloth with gilt title and publisher on spine. xii, 343 pp., double-column text. VG, exlibrary with ancient paper label at base of spine, bookplate from University of Wooster (withdrawn), their inkstamp on title-page with large WITHDRAWN stamp over it. Typical foxing to some pages, top of front outer gutter cloth is split for 2", internal paper is solid. Item #168962
Lengthy letter of introduction for a Dr. Seward, addressed to a Dr. Gurley in Washington City, signed by Robert Baird is laid into this copy. It is dated Yonkers, NY Feb. 24 /63. Less than three weeks later, he would be dead. From the library of Rev. A. A. E. Taylor, former President of Wooster University, who presented the book to the Wooster University Library in 1875. His survey of educational deficiencies while ministering to destitute believers in New Jersey is the late 1820s eventually led to the introduction of a system of public education in New Jersey.
OCLC: 6370273
Price: $400.00