JESSICA'S FIRST PRAYER. by the Author of "Fern's Hollow"

by [ SMITH, Sarah ], [ Hesba Stretton ], [ Henry Walker Herrick ]

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New York: American Tract Society, 1867 circa. American Edition. Hardcover. Good. wood engravings. 18mo, 83 pages, publisher's. embossed cloth, lightly worn, light yellow endpapers, title-page detaching. [LC Cat. 1: p.470; Osborne 1: p.390 q.v. -"Tsar Alexander ordered a copy to be placed in all Russian schools."]. Wood engravings. Hesba Stretton was the nom de plume of Sarah Smith, who was the daugher of a bookseller. Smith wrote religious books for children. In Britain this title reportedly outsold ALICE IN WONDERLAND by a factor of 10 ! Smith was a co-founder of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and her accounts of working with slum children had comparable effect with her friend, Charles Dickens. FIRST PRAYER is also a temperance novel. The illustration appears to be signed by monogram by Henry Walker Herrick. The illustration facing p.

• Publisher: American Tract Society
• Year: 1867
• Edition: American Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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