Here??s a book that came out of the house my parents lived in until their deaths in the past few years. The house was built in 1827 by my great-great-grandfather, Henry S. Taylor (1799-1867), and I represent the first generation in the family not to have been raised there, thanks to the unusually long lives of our grandparents. None of us is equipped to take the place over, so it will be on the open market soon, for the first time since 1744. (Parts of it have changed hands by purchase, but only from one family member to another.)
So there??s Henry S. on the flyleaf, and beneath him, Thomas E. Taylor (1832-1893), his son, who turned fifteen in January of the year noted. They were Quakers, and did not use the pagan-based names of the days or months. Gummere, too, was a Quaker, and was among the founders of Haverford, where he taught. The book went through several editions in a fairly short time, and is not generally a collectible. I leave to your imagination how much I care about that.
Cheers,
Henry
Excellent history, Henry. Thank you.
R.J. Schneider, post: 443920, member: 409 wrote: Excellent history, Henry. Thank you.
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And thank you, too. Just a note, my copy has gold on red on the spine.
Henry
There are always lives
Left between the leaves
http://firstknownwhenlost.blogspot.com/2011/03/neglected-poets-joan-barton.html
m & h taylor, post: 444133, member: 239 wrote: And thank you, too. Just a note, my copy has gold on red on the spine.
Henry
I'm amazed at the fourth addition. The copy shown above is a seventeenth edition, and in lieu of a standard published or copyright year, it mentions being
recorded in the Eastern district of Pennsylvania 1853. I was trying to imagine what year the fourth edition was offered.
1825. It's on the title page right at the bottom (for some reason the title page is shown as an attached file at the end of my message).
Cheers,
Henry