AUSTIN, John Mather

Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness, and Happiness

Auburn, NY: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854. Later edition. Octavo (18.5cm); brown cloth, stamped in blind with gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; 243+[12]pp, frontispiece. Spine lolled, backstrip and upper margins sunned; soiling and surface wear; extremities bumped and rubbed. Textblock damped and foxed throughout, with some soiling and slight pulling at the signatures. Overall Good.

John Mather Austin, author of A Voice to the Married, presents these lectures in good conduct for young men and women, originally written "for the pulpit". Promotes the usual rigid parameters of acceptable behavior by which young people were expected to abide, though with the prevalence of such books in this era, one can only question their efficacy. With 12 additional pages of publisher's advertisements.

Price: $25.00

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