Nichols, I. Hours with The Evangelists (2 volume set). Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859. First Edition. [12403]
Two volumes in half morocco with black textured cloth boards, edges are rubbed yet the joints remain sound; spines with six panels with gilt-decorated hubs, titles in gilt. Bottom of vol. i. spine is mildly chipped. The bindings are worn yet attractive. Stiff waxed orange end papers with a marbled pattern, both front end paper on both volumes detached and laid in. Vol. i. free end paper inscribed, "John W. T. Nichols With the affectionate regards of George Nichols, June, 1876." Each volume with a steel-engraved frontispiece, one an illustration of Jesus Christ, the other of the author. x, 405; (viii), 388 clean pp.; text blocks tight. Good. Hardcover.
"Riverside, Cambridge: Stereotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton and Company" on the copyright page. Both volumes with a small green bookseller's ticket on the rear end paper, "Sever, Francis & Co., University Bookstore, Harvard Square, Cambridge."
The inscription: George Nichols (1778-1865), was brother to the author, Ichabod Nichols. George Nichols inscribes this gift to his son, John White Treadwell Nichols (1852-1920), in 1876.
"The chief design of this work is to notice, in the order of events, some of the principal characteristics of the gospel history, - the arguments, internal and external, for its authenticity, by which I have been most impressed, - and especially the life, character, and instructions of Jesus Christ." - Vol. I., p. 1.
Rev. Ichabod Nichols (1784-1859), b. Portsmouth, New Hampshire; d. Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University (1802), and was later awarded Doctor of Divinity degrees from both Bowdoin College (1821) and his alma mater (1851). Nichols was president of the American Unitarian Association (1837-1844), was for 42 years a Trustee of Bowdoin College, and a member and vice president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was pastor of the First Parish Church in Portland, Maine, for 50 years.
He was warmly remembered as a man of high abilities, scholarship, and of irreproachable character.
"Dr. Nichols was a profound scholar. Though he graduated from college a quarter of a century before German was taught there, he read German theology and philosophy in the original tongue. He was an adept in many branches of science, and throughout his life maintained his interest in the higher mathematics." - Harvard Square Library online.
