The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill

The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill

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(Fore-Edge Painting) — Rev. Theodore Dehon

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(Fore-Edge Painting) — Rev. Theodore Dehon

Sermons on The Public Means of Grace, The Facts and Festivals of The Church, Scripture Characters, and Various Practical Subjects. London: C. and J. Rivington, 1825 


2 volumes, 8vo (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.; 213 x 133 mm). Title to each volume; some minor foxing and offsetting. Full navy calf, covers ruled and tooled in gilt and blind, spines with semi-raised bands in five compartments, second and fourth gilt-lettered, edges marbled, fore-edges painted with cityscapes, marbled endleaves; light rubbing to extremities, joints weak with some minor restoration, near contemporary ownership signatures to front free endpapers. In custom slipcases.

With charming fore-edge paintings of Boston and Philadelphia. Theodore Dehon was born in Boston, and was ordained deacon in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1797. He was ordained priest in 1800, and eventually became Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina.

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