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Description:
Album für Sonntag-Schüler
Vierundsechzig Denksprüche
Gesammelt von
Karl Gerok
Text in German.
IG. Kohler, Philaldephia, 1880.
Red cloth hard covers with gilt title, 5.3 inches x 3.75 inches, green floral patterned pastedowns and endpapers,
all edges gilt, 88 pages, b&w full-page illustrations depicting events in the life of Jesus.
Very scarce copy of a charming petite Pennsylvania German Christian book for children.
An English version of the book was also published at the same time or a bit later.
[Sunday school album : containing sixty-four texts from holy scripture / arranged after the German of Karl Gerok, with translations by Mary Welden.
Imprint Philadelphia : Ig. Kohler, c1880.]
“Karl Gerok (January 30, 1815 Vaihingen - January 14, 1890 Stuttgart) was a German preacher and religious poet. He studied at Tübingen, and became chief court preacher and chief consistorial councillor in Stuttgart in 1868.
His sermons, and particularly his religious poetry, were much admired. The chief collection of the latter is entitled Palmblätter (“Palm leaves,” 1857; 17th ed., 1871). It was translated into English by Brown (London, 1869). This and Pfingstrosen (“Pentecost roses,” 4th ed., 1870) made him famous. He also published Blumen und Sternen (“Flowers and stars,” 3rd ed., 1870) and, during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, patriotic effusions under the title of Deutsche Ostern (“German Easter”).”
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GEROK, Karl, a German prelate and poet, born at Vaihingen, Würtemberg, Jan. 30, 1815. He studied at the gymnasium of Stuttgart, held various ecclesiastical offices, and in 1868 was appointed first preacher of the court and chief consistorial councillor. His published sermons have passed through many editions, and his religious poems, including Pfingstrosen (4th ed., 1870) and Palmblätter (17th ed., 1871), have made him famous. Besides his poems Blumen und Sternen (3d ed., 1870), he published during the Franco-German war of 1870-‘71 patriotic effusions under the title of Deutsche Ostern.
CONDITION:
Good. (Covers have soiling, moderate shelf wear. Title gilt remains bright. Age tanning of paper. Moderate spotting at page margins.
Unmarked contents. Tight binding.)
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