Watching : A Daily Companion Containing Scripture Texts and Hymns for a Month

New York and London: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1890. Undated, circa 1890. Detail color illustrated with a pastoral theme, surrounded by appropriate words from the Psalms, Hebrews and Isaiah and other poetic scripture verse. Light tan flexible boards illustrated with with decorative mirror and sword symbol, gilt edges, sixteen pages, bound with a brown ribbon. The book is in good condition, with a less than two-inch square large moisture shadow off to left front cover top corner, among a handful of other fingertip sized dampstains, which are also light and less detracting in nature, also two two-and-a-half inch literal square fade marks upon the cover (adjacent to but not covering the cover design). Light shelf soil, mildly rubbed periphery, some foxing mostly to the margins of a few of the pages, names of three female owners, with dates of 1890, 1911 and 1995, in pencil on front free endpaper, otherwise age-toned but clean pages free from other markings. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …