Anonymous Daniel P Kidder (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First edition (no additional printings listed). Original quarter leather (spine) and marbeled paste-down paper covered boards, 3 ½ x 5 ¼ inches, 19 pp + 2 pp ads, illustrated with frontispiece. Hardcover, fair. Corners bumped with cardboard exposed there and along edges of boards, scuffed. Internally, a bit wavy, ½ inch chip of lower corner of title page, hinges cracked, an approximately 1 1/2inch wide tan stain along length of gutters on front endpapers, frontispiece and title page, tracing (in pencil) of old coin, and old bookseller's embossed seal on free front endpapers, the usual foxing and tanning throughout, otherwise clean and unmarked. Consists of brief history of the orphanage, followed by a biographical sketch of Michael Daily, an Irish born boy who was one of 50 who came there from the "Long Island Farms" (essentially a rural workhouse) in 1844; in 1846, at age 15, he had a religious awakening, and was from then trained to be a teacher there. He became a Methodist, and worked among his fellow charges, fell ill of pleurisy, or perhaps tuberculosis, and died in 1847. John George Leake (1752-1827) was a New York lawyer who left money in that will to create a home for orphaned children, and assigned his friend, John Watts, to administer the home. The 1843 building was designed by Ithiel Town and constructed by Samuel Thomson in the Greek revival style. In 1891 the Home moved outside the city; the original building is still extent. Rare; only 3 copies on OCLC. Religion; biography; eulogy; child labor.…