first edition Full Leather
1826 · New York
by Noah Davis (Editor)
New York: The Sunday School Depository, 1826. First Edition. Full Leather. Good binding. An uncommon hymnal designed for the use of mariners -- "necessary wherever public worship is held for the benefit of this valuable class of our fellow-men, and by mariners themselves, when 'afar off at sea'". Compiled by the founder of American Baptist Publication Society, and the father of Noah Davis who taught Moral Philosophy at the University of Virginia for decades in the post-Civil War era. Japanese tissue paper repair to the top edge of the spine; lacking the endpapers and final page of the index. Mottled calf with red leather label on the spine. [4], 293, [1] pp. (AI 24307). Good binding.
(Inventory #: 288356)