Sown Spring Time (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. THE BOARDS AND SPINE ARE BUMPED, RUBBED & SCUFFED. THE HINGE IS CRACKED AT BOTH PASTEDOWNS. THERE'S A PENNED DEDICATION TO THE FRONT PASTEDOWN DATED 1881. THERE ARE PEN MARKS TO THE FFEP AND CONSIDERABLE PENCIL MARKS TO THE FOLLOWING 2 PAGES, TITLE PAGE, FINAL 2 PAGES & BACK PASTEDOWN. THE PAGES EDGES ARE DISCOLOURED AND THERE ARE PATCHES OF FOXING AND MARKS THROUGHOUT. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

James Speirs was a prolific evangelical speaker and publisher, whose printed output suggests he was an important figure in the Victorian Sunday School movement. Sown in the spring-time collects 12 addresses aimed at a juvenile audience by Speirs and others (R.L. Tafel, Alfred J. Johnson, Samuel Teed and Charles A. Faraday) several on a theme of natural metaphor: "About Hares and Tortoises"; "The Horse and its correspondence", "The Serpent and its correspondence" and "Trees". 8vo (162 × 100 mm), pp. viii, 3-169, [1], complete despite there being no pp. [1-2], pagination includes initial advert leaf. Original publisher's decorative cloth gilt, upper cover with a roundel depicting a sower at work in the fields. Slightly rubbed, but a nice, bright copy. [COPAC and Worldcat lists editions of 1876, 1877 and 1879. Worldcat lists 2 copies of this edition (Graduate Theological Union Library and Urbana College) but COPAC lists none in the UK].