James, John Angell. The Young Man From Home. New York: American Tract Society, ca 1845. [10079]
Black blindstamped cloth, 6 x 4 inches, joints good, edges and ends worn through, some small bits of paper stuck to the back side. 187 pp. plus 3-pp. publisher's catalogue, tight. Foxing throughout; lacks the second front free end paper (blank). Good. Hardcover.
Published circa 1840-45, before the new typeface, which was introduced in 1847.
Gives advice to young men leaving home, with warnings against vices - the theatre, cigars, self-confidence, gambling-houses, sabbath-breaking, bad companions, vicious women, drinking parties, a ruined conscience, dishonesty, unbelief - and presents preventatives and cures for those who have fallen.
John Angell James (1785-1859), "an eminent Congregational minister." James was an Englishman who entered the ministry when only seventeen years old. "In the course of years Angell James came to be considered the most important and influential public man in connection with his own denomination, and on account of his evangelical views of religion, he was also much esteemed both by the Low-Church party in the English Establishment, and by Dissenters generally in Scotland and America."