Persuasives To Early Piety, Interspersed With Suitable Prayers. de Pike, J. G - [ca1830's]

American Tract Society. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Foxed throughout. Boards are badly edge chipped, torn, curled and bumped. Bite taken out of lower edge of back board and leaves.

NY: American Tract Society. Quarter Leather. Good/No Jacket. Volume X in the Evangelical Family Library. The cover is 1/4 Leather. The text is clean with no markings. The binding is sound. The cover shows some edgewear with soiling and rubbing. There is some foxing in the text.

New York: American Tract Society, D. Fanshaw, Printer, 1830. Undated, ca. 1830s. Externally good, internally fair to good. Brown leather with gilt lettered black spine label, about six inches tall. Modest cover wear, good hinges, firm text block, rear free endpaper removed, pages moderately to heavily foxed yet readily legible, some additional transparent stains to first and last few pages, name on front free endpaper, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 24mo - 5" - 5¾" Tall.

Limerick, Maine: Hobbs, Woodman & Co., 1828 Stated First american edition from the fifth London, 290 pp. Attractively bound in full calf with four double gilt bands on the spine, spine title still legible, a solid clean bright tight copy. Chip at top of spine, wear at tips. Original owner, Silas Aldrich name on front endpaper, two obitiuaries and a poem inside front cover, last two endpapers each missing a large chip.
An exceptional copy from this time period.

18. PIKE, J. G. PERSUASIVES TO EARLY PIETY, INTERSPERSED WITH SUITABLE PRAYERS. New York: The American Tract Society, [N.d., circa 1832]. first American edition. Woodcut frontispiece and vignette to title-page. 359 pp. 12mo., contemporary brown calf, black leather spine label with title in gilt to spine. Contemporary ink ownership to front fly-leaf (dated 1832). This is an instructional work wherein the sins of youth are enumerated and the advantages of early religion and the pleasantness of piety are outlined. Front free endpaper is missing. Light to moderate foxing throughout the text; some corners are dog-eared. The leather is rubbed to surfaces and edgeworn. Overall, this is a very good copy. (Rinderknech 3090).