Fletcher, Alexander. A Guide to Family Devotion; containing A Hymn, a Portion of Scripture with Reflections, and a Prayer, for The Morning and Evening of every Day in the Year; with an Appendix of Prayers and Hymns on various Subjects. London: James S. Virtue, c. 1845. The Fifty-first Edition of One Thousand each. [11575]
This is the same size as the large Family Bibles of the Victorian era.
Black leather spine & corners, very faded cloth boards, worn, stained and scuffed, joints good with surface rubbing only. Large 12 1/2 x 10 inches. Many steel engravings, list below. xx, 776 pages; printed in double columns. Foxing, particularly to some of the plates. Lacks the front free end paper (blank). Fair. Hardcover.
The Plates: Family Worship; extra engraved Title Page; portrait of the author; Christ & the Woman of Samaria; the Good Shepherd; the Holy Family; Adoration; Joseph Presenting his Father to Pharaoh; Jephthah's Return; Christ's Sermon on the Mount; Joseph Sold by His Brethren; Rachel Weeping for her Children; Our Redeemer; Moses and the Burning Bush; Samuel before Eli [2" tear in margin]; Joseph interpreting Pharoah's Dream; Christ taken down from the Cross; St. Paul and the Viper; Christ entering Jerusalem; St. John and his Disciples; Consider the Lilies of the Field; the Prodigal Son; Moses with the Tables of the Law; Moses in the Land of Midian; Peter delivered from Prison; The Comforter.
Alexander Fletcher, D.D. (1787-1860), b. Bridge of Teith, Scotland; d. Clapham, England. He was a Presbyterian who served in both Presbyterian and Independent churches, a popular preacher before great crowds of hearers. "During thirty years of service he was one of the most popular dissenting ministers of London, especially for his Sunday-school addresses and sermons...It is computed that 70,000 copies of his Guide to Family Devotion were sold before his death." - M'Clintock & Strong, Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (1894).
