Brainerd Eveline Warner Editors (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Ex-Library. First edition. A collection of "Addresses." collected and edited by Cephas Brainerd and Eveline Warner Brainerd. Some of the authors include Ralph Waldo Emerson. Daniel Webster, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Complete in two volumes. Green cloth boards with gilt titles and gilt ornament on front covers. Title pages printed in red and black, top edges gilt, with deckle edges. Printed by the De Vinne Press. Ex-library with minimal markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A quality production of The De Vinne Press. Two volumes in green cloth, bordered in green with The Society's gilt emblem on the front of each book; 8 1/2 x 6 inches, top page edges gilt, rest deckled. Light splatter blotches to the spines of both volumes. (xii), 466; (iv), 418 clean and unmarked pp., both volumes tight. Twenty-four entries by clergyman and politicians. All but two are earlier than the American Civil War, and they include the following: A Tribute to New England (1820), by Gardiner Spring; The Duty and Reward of Honouring God (1821), by John Broderick Romeyn; The Memory of the Just is Blessed (1822), by Philip Melancthon Whelpley; An Address (1838), by Leonard Bacon; The Age of the Pilgrims the Heroic Period of Our History (1843), by Rufus Choate; The Landing at Plymouth (1843), by Daniel Webster; The Founders, Great in Their Unconsciousness (1849), by Horace Bushnell; The Constitution and the Union (1850), by Daniel Webster; The Central Principle (1853), by Mark Hopkins; The Heritage of the Pilgrims (1854), by William Maxwell Evarts; The Puritan Scheme of National Growth (1857), by Richard Salter Storrs.