The Home Scenes of the New Testament: or Christ in the Family
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1859. Second Edition. Octavo, xii, 296, [4] pages, publisher's original red cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt decoration to both boards. All edges gilt. The Home-Scenes of the New Testament; or, Christ in the Family, by Rev. Theophilus Stork, is a mid-nineteenth-century American devotional work examining the religious significance of the Christian home through scenes and teachings drawn from the New Testament. Reflecting the Victorian Protestant ideal of domestic piety, the book includes chapters on home life, the Holy Family, marriage, the family altar, Bethany, and old age. A desirable example of nineteenth-century American religious and domestic literature, with appeal to collectors of Christian devotional works, Protestant theology, Victorian family life, and domestic religious culture. Some slight rubbing and wear, discoloration to spine, lacks front free endpapers, corners bumped, scattered foxing and discoloration, else in good + condition. Item #423
Price: $100.00