The Life of Clement Phinney
Dover, N.H. William Burr, Printer, 1851. First edition. Hardcover. 190pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Blue decoratively embossed cloth over boards. Frontispiece portrait. Ex-library (Dover Public), with a library label on the spine, a bookplate on the front pastedown, and a discreet blind stamp on the title page. Backstrip sunned. Bookplate of prominent Dover banker Elisha Rhodes Brown (1847-1922) on the front pastedown. Brown was President of the Concord and Portsmouth Railroad and of the Stratford National Bank. Good. Item #69670
The biography of American Free-will Baptist preacher (1780- 1855) Clement Phinney, born in Gorham, Maine. He worked as a teacher, was associated with the abolitionist movement, and was entrenched in the economic development of the time.
Price: $75.00