Evening Hours with My Children: Or, Conversations on the Gospel Story

New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 530 Broadway, 1859. [JUVENILE] [RELIGION]. R. CRAIGHEAD, Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper, Caxton Building, 81,83,85 Centre Street. M.U. [Matthew Urlwin] SEARS; J. [John] GILBERT; engravers.

4to (10 ½" x 8 1/8"); 143pp; quarter bound in black cloth with printed brown boards; engraved pictorial of angel with shepherds on the front with lettering; engraved fp with tissue guard + 11 additional full-page engravings; pictorial vignette on title page; printer info on verso title page; rubbing to boards with loss, corners bumped, some staining; very good minus. OCLC locates only 1 copy of the 1859 edition with this printer at UVA. First published in London by James Nisbet in 1855, and in New York the same year by Robert Carter & Brothers. The twelve "Evening" chapters are presented as conversations about the life of Jesus between a mother and her children. Beautiful engravings, many signed by Matthew Urlwin Sears (1798-1870) and by Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897).