Revival Hymns, Henry Ward Beecher (1858)

Beecher, Henry Ward. Revival Hymns. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. First Edition. [11070] Black blind stamped cloth, worn with old stains, worming to the rear joint, 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches, tight. Inscribed on the ffep, "Miss Eliza J. Wagar, Brownstown, Wayne Co. Mich., Feb. 4th 1866." [1]-XVI, 1-368 generally clean pp., some light stains. Good. Hardcover. "Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins, New England Type and Stereotype Foundery, Boston." on verso of the tp. 414 selections, words only. Published during the period of the great Prayer Meeting Revival that began in 1858 in New York City. "Although the publishers requested us to form a Collection of Revival Hymns suitable to the general feeling which now prevails throughout this whole nation, we have that that design would be best accomplished by a work to all social religious meetings." Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), son of the Rev. Lyman Beecher, "began his ministry on the western frontier where he engaged vigorously in