Barrows, John Henry. Henry Ward Beecher: The Shakespeare of the Pulpit. New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1893. [12419]
Burgundy publisher's cloth with gilt titles, spine a bit faded, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. Frontispiece portrait of Beecher, 541 clean pp. with index. Contemporary private bookplate. One leaf has a marginal tear with the loss of a couple of letters of text. Good. Hardcover.
One of the American Reformers series, edited by Carlos Martyn.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), son of the Rev. Lyman Beecher, he "began his ministry on the western frontier where he engaged vigorously in the labors of a revivalist. Asahel Nettleton had considerable influence over his life in those early years." - Roberts, Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography.
Beecher became probably the best-known and most popular American preacher in his day.
