Excerpt from History of the American Baptist Publication Society: From Its Origin in 1824, to Its Thirty-Second Anniversary in 1856 One year before we left Philadelphia, [1819] I originated the bap tist almanac.' This was the first religious Almanac ever published, I believe. Upwards of 3000 copies of it [for the year 1820] were printed, and they sold very rapidly. The whole edition was sold. The second number of it for the year 1821, was in type. It was taken with our printing Ofiice to Washington, but was not published. ...
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Excerpt from History of the American Baptist Publication Society: From Its Origin in 1824, to Its Thirty-Second Anniversary in 1856 One year before we left Philadelphia, [1819] I originated the bap tist almanac.' This was the first religious Almanac ever published, I believe. Upwards of 3000 copies of it [for the year 1820] were printed, and they sold very rapidly. The whole edition was sold. The second number of it for the year 1821, was in type. It was taken with our printing Ofiice to Washington, but was not published. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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American Baptist Publication Society
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American Baptist Publication Society
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N.D.
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English
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Probably 1856. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on front endpaper, "Geo F. Leo (? ) Esq from Am. Bapt. Pub Society". Original brown cloth, 275 pp, no illustrations. Hardcover, good to very good. Corners bumped with cardboard exposed there and at spots along edges of boards, rather extensive chipping along spine. Internally, front hinge starting to crack, moderate foxing along edges of text, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked; probably never really read. Consists of accounts of meetings, missionary work in Germany, Sweden and Burma, Sunday schools, colportage, doings of various people, etc. Religion; history; Americana; Victorian; Christian.
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