Abbott's Young Christian. a Memorial Edition with a Sketch of the Author by One of His Sons

by Abbott, Jacob

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Book Description

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good-. 1904. Hardcover. 131, 402, 8 advertising pages, illustrations, brown cloth, library bookplate inside front cover, front blank endpaper removed, otherwise very good. From the prefatory note: "In preparing this memoir of its author which accompanies this edition of 'The Young Christian', but limited use has been made of abundant materials. Our father would not have liked a 'life' of him, in the ordinary sense of the term, to be written; but his sons have felt that to prefix such a sketch as this to such a work of his as 'The Young Christian' does not exceed the bounds of propriety. " Includes a 17-page bibliography of Abbott's works. After the 131 page "sketch of the author", the second title-page states: "The Young Christian, very greatly improved and enlarged with numerous engravings. " From the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition: "Jacob Abbott's "Rollo Books" - Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe, &c. (28 vols. ) - are the best known of his writings, having as their chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home, Sandford and Merton, and the Parent's Assistant. Of his other writings (he produced more than two hundred volumes in all) , the best are the Franconia Stories (10 vols. ) , twenty-two volumes of biographical histories in a series of thirty-two volumes (with his brother John S. C. Abbott) , and the Young Christian, -all of which had enormous circulations. "; Ex-Library; 202 pages .

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