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Lot 145 - "The Mother At Home" Antique Book On Motherhood By John S.C. Abbott, Published By Crocker & Brewster, Boston, And Leavitt Lord & Co., New York, 1834
Lot 145 - "The Mother At Home" Antique Book On Motherhood By John S.C. Abbott, Published By Crocker & Brewster, Boston, And Leavitt Lord & Co., New York, 1834
Early nineteenth-century devotional and instructional work by John S.C. Abbott, focusing on the Christian mother’s role in guiding children through discipline, moral education, and faith. Illustrated frontispiece engraving depicts a mother with a child on her lap, captioned: “Takes Mary in her lap and says ‘My dear are you sorry that you disobeyed mother?’” (Page 32). Published in 1834 by Crocker & Brewster in Boston, with New York imprint by Leavitt Lord & Co. Bound in green cloth boards. Heavy foxing to pages, staining to endpapers, and general wear consistent with age.