TAEGLICHES HANDBUCH

1829. STARCK, Johann Friedrich. JOHANN FRIEDRICH STARCKS [sic]... TAGLICHES HANDBUCH IN GUTEN UND BOSEN TAGEN. Enthaltend: Aufmunterungen, Gebete und Lieder, zum Gebrauch gesunder, betrubter, kranker und sterbender Christen. Welchem beygefugt ist, Ein tagliches Gebetbuchlein fur Schwangere, Gebarende und Unfruchtbare. Durchgesehen, verandert und vermehret von M. Johann Jacob Starck... Mit funf Holzschnitten. Philadelphia : Georg W. Mentz, Buchhandler..., stereotypirt von J. Howe, 1829. Frontispiece portrait and four other wood-engraved plates. 12mo. 538,106 pp. Contemporary mottled leather binding with two leather straps with claps for closing, with a red morocco label and decorative gilt-stamped single-rules on spine. Contemporary ink ownership of Elizabeth Geiger Brooke, with birth records of her children on one fly-leaf, a hand-written marriage certificate (New Hanover, Pa, March 13th 1831) tipped-in, and laid-in is a newspaper notice of her husband William Brooke's death at the age of 79. Despite occasional light rubbing on edges and that one strap is starting, the binding is truly well preserved and quite fresh. Text leaves show consistent light foxing throughout, with only a few pages of moderately heavier foxing. Johann Friedrich Starck (German, 1680-1756), Lutheran pastor at Franfurt am Main, was a proponent of mild, practical Pietism and the author of many hymns and this popular book of devotions.