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1870 The New and Old Bible Looking Glass or Pictorial Life of Man (inv656) Emblems pp 1-326 School of the Heart 4-52 The Candle of Life 6-36 Bunyan 1-8 Faith 9—15 The Sinner and the Spider 16-23 The Sun of Righteous 24-25 A Pennyloaf and rhe Bread of Life 29-30 Faith and Peace 29-30 The Beggar 31-33 Love, Trust, Hope 34-36 The Dawning 37-39 Satan and Blind Man’s Buff 40-42 The Love of Christ 45-46 The Vine and Vineyard 47-49 Satan Tempting Christ 50-52 The Sheaf 54-67 Etc… 3 of the 7 authors Ezra Hall Gillett (1823–1875) was an American clergyman and author, born at Colchester Connecticut He graduated in 1841 at Yale, and in 1844 at the Union Theological Seminary, and became pastor of a Presbyterian church in Harlem, N. Y. In 1868 he was appointed professor of political economy, ethics, and history in New York University. George Barrell Cheever, D.D., eminent in reform, philanthropy, and literature, born at Hallowell, Maine, April 17, 1807, and graduated at Bowdoin College, 1825. Dr. Cheever was a Congregational Pastor at Salem, Mass., 1833; New York, 1839; and the Church of the Puritans, N. Y., 1846-67. He has published several works, and one, Deacon Giles Distillery, procured him a month's imprisonment, in 1835. In 1831 he edited the American Common Place Book of Poetry, and in 1851 Christian Melodies. The latter contains 19 hymns by him. Howard Crosby (27 February 1826 – 1891) was an American Presbyterian preacher, scholar and professor, great-grandson of Judge Joseph Crosby of Massachusetts and of Gen. William Floyd of New York, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and the father of Ernest Howard Crosby, and a relative of Fanny Crosby. 280 EngravingsTight binding, back cover shows spots as on picture, headbands damaged; corners worn. Published by N Tibbals & Sons. Tibbals and Sons was a New York City publishing firm which specialized in religious books. The firm which was begun in about 1848 by Nathan Tibbals added two sons, Nathan V. and John A.J. Tibbals in 1871. The firm sold to ministers internationally. The founder, Nathan Tibbals (1815-1897) was a methodist minister. Because of a poorly described "throat affliction" he retired from the ministry after a short fifteen year career. He subsequently embarked on his publishing career. Son John A. J. Tibbals (1849-1932) joined the firm as a young man. After the death of his father the firm was renamed N.D. Tibbals Book Company. He retired from the firm in 1917.
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