The anchor: with sketches of the lives of Jeremiah Evarts, James Montgomery, and Gregory T. Bedell.
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [1836]. First edition, 12mo, pp. 72; engraved frontis illustration, title-page vignette, 5 illustrations in the text (1 full-page); contemporary quarter calf and blue paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt direct on spine; extremities worn, with boards soiled and scuffed and pages with some staining, but overall good and sound. A brief illustrated description of anchors and their functions--both literal and metaphorical--followed by an account of the wreck of the packet ship Albion. The "sketches" of Evarts (1781-1831, missionary, reformer and opponent of Native American removal policies), Montgomery (b. 1787, Episcopal minister and first rector of St. Stephen's church in Philadelphia), and Bedell (1791-1834, founder of St. Andrew's, also in Philadelphia), are in fact accounts of their death-bed experiences. Bloch, 1474. Item #27260
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