Ebenezer Porter Dd (6 results)

Original brown leather boards. Condition: Fair. 4th Edition. Fourth edition. Chapters include reading, articulation, tones and inflections, accent, emphasis, modulation, rhetorical action; also contains numerous 'familiar pieces' for practice. Also published in Boston by Crocker & Brewster and in New York by J. Leavitt, "for sale by them"; other locations listed. Inked owner's name, other pencil and ink notes. 404 pages. Very well worn but intact and readable. Hinges cracked but holding, pages spotted and stained.

Half-Leather. Fifth Edition with an appendix. Fair to Good. In brown marbled calf leather covers with gilt title blocked in red on spine. Square and intact binding. No writing on endpapers or text pages. Moderate random foxing throughout with all pages are legible. Leather ends of spine are broken off. Moderate scuffing and shelf wear. Photos upon request. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. Porter, an early 19th Century Congregational minister and seminary teacher, wrote several works on rhetoric and speech, on what he called the "art of reading." This book, "The Rhetorical Reader," was intended for use in academies and high schools and was issued in over 200 editions throughout the U.S. during the 1800s, becoming a seminal document in the study of speech pathology. This 1849 copy is from the first or second printing of the second edition, revised by James N. MacElligot. About 4 3/4 x 7 inches, 312 pages, including an appendix and 133 reading exercises, in full brown leather-covered boards with gold lettering on paper label on spine. Leather is considerably scuffed and worn, especially at corners. Leather on spine is chipped with quarter-inch pieces missing from spine ends. Both exterior and interior hinges are cracked but continuing to hold quite firmly. Text edges soiled. Text is clean and complete, though end pages and text proper lightly foxed. A faint signature is just visible on fep with a one-line notation on rear end page. All that said, book is basically clean and fully legible and remains a decent example of an early document in speech pathology's history.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. [RELIGION]. Ebenezer Porter, D. D., Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, Rev. Nathan Parker. "The Magnitude of the Preacher's Work. A Sermon, Delivered March 15, 1815, at the Ordination of the Rev. Israel W. Putnam, as Pastor of the North Church in Portsmouth." Andover, MA: Flagg and Gould, 1815. "Published at the request of the people." First edition, though confusingly Porter gave a similar ordination sermon for Rev. Alfred Mitchell with the same title six months earlier. English language. Hand-sewn pamphlet on hand-made wove paper letterpressed black in blue rag-paper jackets printed black with printer's ornament on front wrapper and book advertisements on back wrapper. Joined by the sermons 'Charge' by Wadsworth and 'Right Hand of Fellowship' by Parker. 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. 2 oz. 32 pp. Back wrapper of jacket detached but present. Ink numbering on front wrapper. Text clean and uncut. Very Good in Fair jacket. No ISBN. No ASIN. REFERENCES: In Sabin. OCLC: 12271340. "Printed by Flagg and Gould, some of the earliest printers of Hebrew texts in America, and one of the longest-running continually operated presses in the US, still open today. Putnam, whose ordination is the occasion for this pamphlet, later called Parker, whose sermon ends the pamphlet, an 'infidel' and a 'subversive' intent on destroying Christianity. Parker?s 'radical' beliefs split the city?s Congregationalists and led to the building of the granite Unitarian church on State Street in 1826.".

Condition: Very Good. Octavo (in 4's) paper covers 30pp - very slight toning (SABIN 6423 lists only 2 locations Harvard & Philadelphia Library). *An uplifting sermon but somewhat intolerant in asserting that "The Professors of this Institution . are at perfect liberty to renounce these opinions . but in that case, they are bound, as honest and honourable men, to relinquish their present station". Porter was later appointed President of the Andover Theological Seminary, which shared its campus with Phillips Academy, and was founded in 1807 by orthodox Calvinists who had fled Harvard College after it appointed a liberal Unitarian theologian to a professorship of divinity. The Seminary was independent from Phillips Academy but shared the same board of directors (Wikipedia). 1 volume. Softcover.

Leather. Condition: Fair. RARE copy of this early 19th century work on rhetoric, by the then Professor of Sacred Rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. Leather binding is quite worn, the front board is attached by 1 cord only, lacks the preliminary pages and the title page, thus opening to the preface; pencil notes/marks on the endpapers; pages have foxing. Book.