The Prince of the house of David; or, Three years in the Holy City. Being a series of the letters of Adina, a Jewess of Alexandria, supposed to be sojourning in Jerusalem in the days of Herod, addressed to her father, a wealthy Jew in Egypt, and relating, as if by an eye-witness, all the scenes and wonderful incidents in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from his baptism in Jordan to his crucifixion on Calvary. / By Rev. J.H. Ingraham. Carefully revised and corrected by the author, expressly for this new edition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingraham, J. H. (Joseph Holt), 1809-1860.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Fiction.

Jesus Christ.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Philip, 1906-1970 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

xxiv, 472, 7 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates. : illustrations ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Three years in the Holy City

Place of Publication:

New York : Pudney & Russell Publishers. H. Dayton General Agent, 107 Nassau Street, 1859.

Notes:

"Preface to the New Issue," dated at end September, 1858, p. [ix]-xii.

"'The Prince of the House of David.' Notices of the Press and Recommendations of Eminent Clergymen, with Remarks in Vindication of the Work": p. [1]-7 at end.

Preliminary "Advertisement" by Ingraham extended to 17 lines from the 10 line "Advertisement" in the 1856 edition.--Cf. BAL.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate and autograph of P.S. Dechert, 1859.

Cited in:

BAL, 10052

OCLC:

768760