Evidences of the Christian Religion, Designed Chiefly for the Rising Generation

Philadelphia: Printed for the Compilers, by Kimber, Conrad, and Co., 1806. First Edition. Good. First edition; 7 x 4; pp. [7], 2-118, [2]; marbled paper over boards and 1/4 calf; two period signatures of previous owners; leather cracking, with some loss to tips of spine; paper on boards with scuffing and loss; scattered foxing; in fair to good condition.Joseph Clark (1751 - 1813) graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) with a degree in theology and a licence to preach. He also served in the Hunterdon County Militia of the Second New Jersey Regiment during the Revolution. He would later serve as the director of the Princeton Theological Seminary. His current collection of tracts, "evidences in support of religion," was aimed mostly at children and adolescents and, in his own words, more specifically "those, who are situated in the wilderness, and remote parts of the continent," where he often travelled to distribute it.