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Title: The Rose of Sharon: A Religious Souvenier for MDCCCLIII
Author: ed. Mrs. C. M. Sawyer
Publisher: A. Tompkins and B. B. Mussey & Co., Boston
Published: 1853
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Catalogs: Religion, Essays, Christianity
: Illustrated with five plates plus two frontispieces. Attractive maroon full-calf binding with floral embossed and gilt decoration on boards and spine. Color is rubbed and worn on spine, edges, and portions of embossed design. Corners are bumped and lightly exposed. Page edges are gilded. Ownership information in pencil on flyleaf. Light foxing to pages. This is a compilation of essays, poems, and stories with a spiritual or religious outlook. Authors in this volume include Horace Greeley, Miss Abbie E. Remington, E. H. Chapin, Miss Agnes Leslie, J. Kenrick Fisher, Caroline F. Orne, Henry Bacon, Nelson Brown, and more. Caroline M. Sawyer (1812-1894) was American poet, writer, and editor from Newton, Massachusetts. She was one of the most prolific writers of Christian universalism denominational literature. In addition to editing The Rose of Sharon, she was a contributor to Graham’s Magazine, the Knickerbocker Magazine, the Democratic Review, the Odd Fellows’ Magazine, and for Horace Greeley’s New Yorker. Hardcover, good condition. 304 pages, 12mo.
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