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[Daniel Berkeley Updike and Harold Brown] Compiled by Two Laymen of the Diocese of Rhode IslandBiblio.com

On the Dedications of American Churches: An Enquiry into the Naming of Churches in the United States some Account of English Dedications and Suggestions for future Dedications in the American Church. Compiled by Two Laymen of the Diocese of Rhode Island

1891réf. 071993Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. 10" x 7.5" x 1. Rebacked this copy is bound in half brown leather and brown cloth boards. Gilt trims the seams along the cover. Hubbed spine bears four raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Deckled foredge and foot. Teal endpapers. Leaves are a laid cotton rag paper. Title page bears small black and white engraving also present on the last page. Two large fold-out data tables are present in beautiful condition printed on vellum. Other printed data tables throughout. Includes seven appendices. x 154 pp. CONDITION: Very good. Cover shows wear and spine repair is solid. Reinforced inner hinges with a dark teal publisher's cloth. Leaves have lightly toned with light foxing throughout. Text is very bold and bright. Occasional small tears on page edges. Unmarked except for previous owner's name written within the front endpapers and notation about the book's contents in pencil on a front flyleaf. A solid handsome copy. Full refund if not satisfied. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Daniel Berkeley Updike 1860-1941 was an American printer and historian of typography. In 1880 he joined the publishers Houghton Mifflin & Company of Boston as an errand boy. He worked for the firm's Riverside Press and trained as a printer but soon moved to typographic design. In 1896 he founded the Merrymount Press. . Updike was greatly interested in the history of printing types and in 1922 published Printing Types: Their History Forms and Use. An extensively revised second edition was published in 1937. He was involved in the Anglo-American 'Typographical Renaissance' of the time together with Frederic Goudy Stanley Morison Bruce Rogers and Theodore Low De Vinne." Wikipedia. Printed at the Riverside Press hardcover

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Episcopal Church Diocese of New YorkBiblio.com

The Proceedings of the Court convened under the Third Canon of 1844 in the City of New York on Tuesday December 10 1844 for the Trial of the Right Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk D.D. Bishop of New York; on a Presentment made by the Bishops of Virginia Tennessee and Georgia

1845réf. 004505New York: D. Appleton & Co 1845. Hardcover. Very Good -. 333 1 p.; 22 cm. Contemporary half red morocco with five spine compartments between raised bands with gilt-tooled decoration. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment "Bishop Onderdonk's Trial" with blind-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Maroon cloth over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Philadelphia: George S. Appleton. Without the 16 pages of publisher's advertisements found in some copies. The official account of the trial of the Rev. Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk 1791-1861 on charges of immorality and impurity by the court of bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Small oval paper label at head of spine. Small label at lower edge of front fixed endpaper reading: "From the Library of Herbert Boyce Satcher." Tipped in on the second blank leaf following the front endpapers is a portrait of Onderdonk engraved by W.L. Ormsby from a photograph by Brady. Tipped in on 2 blank pages following the text is a report of Bishop Onderdonk's funeral in 1861. Having been convicted of 6 counts of lewdness based on the testimony of various women who had rejected his advances the bishop had been suspended from his post. The author of the account of his funeral viewed him as "an innocent person visited with the severest punishment." Gift inscription at head of title page: "For John McKeon Esq with cmplnts of David Graham." Added to that an inscription indicating that it had been purchased at the sale of A. Oakey Hall's estate. Tipped in on the first blank leaf following the front endpapers is an autograph letter from David Graham to A. Oakey Hall esq. about another case. Inscriptions in pencil on the front free endpaper indicate that David Graham was the counsel for Onderdonk's defense; at foot of the page: "The Episcopal Church Bishop Richter." David Graham 1808-1852 was an English lawyer who spent part of his career in the United States. John McKeon 1808-1883 was an American lawyer who served as New York County district attorney from 1846 to 1850. Abraham Oakey Hall 1826-1898 was an American lawyer who served as mayor of New York City from 1869 to 1872. Herbert Boyce Satcher was the vicar of St. Aidan's Parish in Cheltenham Pa. from 1924 to 1958. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; minor loss at head of spine; front hinge weak; the blank leaf with the tipped-in portrait is detached but present; minor foxing; otherwise clean and tight. D. Appleton & Co hardcover

Classic Books and Ephemera · États-Unis252,00 $US≈ 225,14 €

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