Book - The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
Narratives of the Shepherd of Salisbury Plain; the Mountain Miller and George Vining. Published by The American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, New-York. D. Fanshaw, printer [1838].
1838 (Date published)
[Various Authors]. Narratives of the Shepherd of Salisbury Plain; The Mountain Miller and George Vining. Published by The American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, New-York. D. Fanshaw, printer [1838].
12mo (150 x 95mm), pp. 47, 34, 16, with one etched frontispiece illustration for the second work (Mountain Miller). Bound in contemporary quarter calf with marbled paper boards. Bookplate and rubber ink stamp of MHS to front pastedown and title-page, respectively. Early faint pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper.
Published and bound together by the American Tract Society, these three Christian stories (including one by Hannah More, another by William Hallock, and the last by an anonymous author) would have been owned and read by schoolchildren in the 19th-century. This copy was evidently owned by a young girl early in its life, as evidenced by a faint pencil ownership inscription to the front free endpaper: "Miss Louisa P. David[?] / Madison. June 1841." We have been unable to identify Louisa. The American Tract Society is a conservative Christian society still in existence today.
An excellent guide to dating American Tract Society publications can be found by clicking here.
https://www.americanantiquarian.org/node/6693
12mo (150 x 95mm), pp. 47, 34, 16, with one etched frontispiece illustration for the second work (Mountain Miller). Bound in contemporary quarter calf with marbled paper boards. Bookplate and rubber ink stamp of MHS to front pastedown and title-page, respectively. Early faint pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper.
Published and bound together by the American Tract Society, these three Christian stories (including one by Hannah More, another by William Hallock, and the last by an anonymous author) would have been owned and read by schoolchildren in the 19th-century. This copy was evidently owned by a young girl early in its life, as evidenced by a faint pencil ownership inscription to the front free endpaper: "Miss Louisa P. David[?] / Madison. June 1841." We have been unable to identify Louisa. The American Tract Society is a conservative Christian society still in existence today.
An excellent guide to dating American Tract Society publications can be found by clicking here.
https://www.americanantiquarian.org/node/6693
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