My Mother or, Recollections of Maternal Influence
Published by Gould and Lincoln, Boston, 1857
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.Ethnographics
AbeBooks seller since December 17, 2015
Condition: Used - Fair
£ 152.58
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unkedn 1857; 12mo Original black cloth, blind stamp decoration. Exterior spine strip missing bottom 2 inches and half inch at top, gilt spine titles still intact and spine repaired with clear plastic tape. Interior is firm but has light foxing throughout. Hard to find title, priced with condition in mind. Fair/ndj: : 254pp, Engraved frontispiece of mother and son in the garden in front of their cottage. Plus 6pp ads for Gould and Lincoln, Boston probably Third Edition of 1849 first. Very rare copy of this mid-nineteenth century work on growing up in a Christian home and the influence upon the author by his mother. The anonymous author does note his family being of Scottish ancestry and being Pilgrim emigrants in 1755.author was John Mitchell (1794-1870) a leading Congregational Minister of the 19th century New England.He was the son of John and Abigail (Waterhouse) Mitchell, and was born in Chester, Conn. in 1794. He graduated from Yale College in 1821, then entered Andover Theological Seminary. In January 1824, he became the editor of the Christian Spectator of New Haven. Some of his writings include The New England Churches; Notes from Over Seas (2 vol.); Scenes and Characters in College; My Mother, or Recollections of Maternal Influence; and Rachel Kell. From the advertisement: "This is one of the most charming books that has been issued from the press for a long period. It is the picture of a quiet New England Family, so drawn and colored as to subserve the important ends of domestic education. A writer of wide celebrity says of the book, in a note to the publisher -- It is one of those rare pictures, painted from life, with the exquisite skill of one of the old masters, which so seldom present themselves to the amateur.".…
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- Title
- My Mother or, Recollections of Maternal Influence
- Author
- Mitchell, John (1794-1870)
- Publisher
- Gould and Lincoln, Boston
- Publication year
- 1857
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
Ethnographics
Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since December 17, 2015
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