THE LIFE OF JESUS, THE CHRIST, 1872.

"Part I, Earlier Scenes"

Written by Henry Ward Beecher. Published by J.B. Ford and Company, New York. FIRST EDITION. All 510 pages, with six pages of publisher's advertisements, are assumed present and attached. "Analytical Index".  Illustrated with steel and wood engravings and maps. Tissue guards intact. No dust jacket. 


Approximate Dimensions: 6" x 9"

Condition Description: brick red hardcover cloth book. Decorative blind-stamping on the front cover with ornamental black borders and a bright crisp gilt palm wreath. Rear board has similar black ornamental borders. Edges of both have original publisher's cant with rounded and slightly worn corners. Spine is strong and firm and the head and the base are rubbed. Spine is sunned and the gilt is very readable. Brown front and rear pastedowns. Front pastedown has pencil name: "Mr. Charles Fissindero, Fitchburg, Mass." No other writing found during a quick scan. Steel engraving frontispiece of Jesus Christ with tissue guard. Binding threads visible along title page gutter. Pages and page edges are browned. Separation along the rear gutter with gauze visible but it remains firm. Book does have slight musty smell but it is not overwhelming and does not detract from the overall condition of the book.


Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. Henry Ward Beecher was the son of Lyman Beecher, a Calvinist minister who became one of the best-known evangelists of his age. Several of his brothers and sisters became well-known educators and activists, most notably Harriet Beecher Stowe, who achieved worldwide fame with her abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Henry Ward Beecher graduated from Amherst College in 1834 and Lane Theological Seminary in 1837 before serving as a minister in Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg, Indiana. In 1847, Beecher became the first pastor of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York. He soon acquired fame on the lecture circuit for his novel oratorical style, in which he employed humor, dialect, and slang. Over the course of his ministry, Beecher developed a theology emphasizing God's love above all else. He also grew interested in social reform, particularly the abolitionist movement. In the years leading up to the Civil War, he raised money to purchase slaves from captivity and to send rifles—nicknamed "Beecher's Bibles"—to abolitionists fighting in Kansas and Nebraska. He toured Europe during the Civil War speaking in support of the Union.


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