American Sunday School Union. Depository 13 North Fourth-Street.,
Date of Publication
1825.
Physical Description
70, [2] p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Notes
In marbled boards with leather spine.
"On the formation of sin in the heart, or the story of the apples. By Mrs. Sherwood."--p. [52]-62. A selection from Sherwood's The history of the Fairchild family.
"The denials of him who would not deny himself."--p. [63]-70. Signed at end: Miss Jane Taylor.
"Books published, and for sale, by the American Sunday School Union"--p. [71-72].
The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, lacks title page. Title taken from caption title.
Rice and Co. were booksellers in Philadelphia from Oct. 4, 1787 to Dec. 1, 1792. Page [19] of this catalogue lists "Picture of England 1790." Bristol suggests 1791 as the date of publication.
Signatures: A-Eⶠ(E6 missigned F).
Apparently from the personal library of Yeates.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 1035 not assigned by Yeates.
Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography,
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800,
Winans, R.B. Descriptive checklist of book catalogues separately printed in America, 1693-1800,
