ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS, An Autographic Year-Book and Christian Counsellor for Every Day in the Year: Containing Seven Hundred and Seventy-four Quotations from the Holy Bible, and Seven Hundred and Fifty-six Profound and Instructive Selections in Prose and Verse from the Writings and Sayings of the World's Greatest Thinkers, prepared for the Great Army of Christian Workers
Philadelphia: C.R. Parish & Company, 1892. Hardcover. Subscription issue, incorporating six additional publications with the wrappers bound in: International Order of The King’s Daughters and Sons, Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor, The Epworth League, The Y’s of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, The Baptist Young People’s Union of America, and The Chautauqua Circle. Features a frontispiece and 100 full-page plates, all wood engravings after illustrations or halftones after photographs, as well as decorated initials and a sheet music page printed in green. In the publisher's ivory flat-weave cloth binding, with red, black, silver, and gilt-stamped ruled borders, frames, and patterned fields, vignette of a mounted crusader with banner, bands with music scroll and Christian devices, lily decorations, scrolled banners with lyrics and motto, and decorative titling on the front panel; and red, black, silver, and gilt-stamped ruled bands and patterned field, band with Christian devices, draped ribbon with Christian devices and motto, and titling on the spine. All edges trimmed, with a brown-printed fine floral sprig pattern. The contents are clean, with a period ink gift inscription to the prefatory blank leaf. Some mild soiling and smudging to the boards; otherwise very good. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Very good. Item #80056
Price: $100.00