THE TEMPERANCE VOLUME; embracing the Temperance Tracts of the American Tract Society

NY: by the Society, 1834. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 17 tracts, each individually paginated. Bound in original leather backed boards, front cover very loose, some light pencil holograph on the endpaper. Little toning, but a good copy. The articles are: Benjamin RUSH, "The Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the human body and mind;" "History of Peter and John Hay;" On the Traffic of Ardent Spirit;" The Rewards of Drunkenness; The Well-Conducted Farm; Johnathan KITTREDGE, Address on the Effects of Ardent Spirits;" Rev. Austin DICKINSON, (one of the founders of Amherst College) "Appeal to American Youth on Temperance; "Alarm to Distillers and Their Allies;" John MARSH, "Putnam and the Wolf: or, The Monster Destroyed;" Edward HITCHCOCK, "Argument Against the Manufacture of Ardent Spirits. Addressed to the Distiller and the Furnisher of the materials;" C. P. M'ilvaine, "Address to the Young Men of the United States, on Temperance;" "Who Slew all These?"; Thomas SEWALL, "Address on the Effects of Intemperance on the intellectual, moral, and physical powers;" Austin, DICKINSON, "A Scripture Argument for Temperance;" John GRIDLEY, "Four Reasons Against the Use of Alcholic Liquors;" Heman HUMPHREY, "Debates of Conscience with a Distiller, A Wholesale Dealer, and a Retailer;" "National Circular Addressed to the Head of each Family in the United States;" "Barnes on the Traffic in Ardent Spirits;