Babylonish Captivity [Jews in Babylon & their Return]

Babylonish Captivity [Jews in Babylon & their Return]; Written for the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, and revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1844. First Edition. [10116]

Blindstamped black cloth, title in gilt to front, 16 x 10 cm (6 3/8 x 4 inches). Salmon end papers. Wood-engraved frontispiece, "Mourning in Captivity," with kneeling subjects, harps in branches overhead. Engraving is fine, a sharp impression with almost no foxing. 72 pp., light foxing, some faint creases, one leaf with 1 inch tear in the bottom margin. Very good. Hardcover.

Copyright held by Christopher C. Dean.

Chapters: Condition of the Jews previous to the Babylonish Captivity; Condition of the Jews in Babylon; Return from Babylon; Building of the Temple; Building of the Walls of Jerusalem.

There are three poems at the end: Following After God, God's Covenant Mercy, and An Abiding Covenant. The first is attributed to James Montgomery (1771-1854), the second to Isaac Watts (1674-1748), and the last to Philip Doddridge (1702-1751). References found at hymnarydotorg.

Scarce with only two locations at WorldCat - Columbia U. in NY & Congregational Library & Archive, Boston.