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Addresses to young men / Henry Ward Beecher.

LIBRA - Rare BJ1671 .B4 1899
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887, author.
Contributor:
Gordon, Benjamin Lee, 1870-1965, associated name, former owner.
Henry Altemus Company, publisher.
Series:
[Golden treasury series] ; [2]
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Young men--Conduct of life.
Young men.
Genre:
Lectures.
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, 259 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 leaf of plates : portrait ; 17 cm
Other Title:
Beecher's addresses
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Henry Altemus, [1899]
Contents:
Industry and idleness
Twelve causes of dishonesty
Six warnings
The portrait gallery
Gamblers and gambling
The strange woman
Popular amusements.
Notes:
Binding is format 1 for Altemus's Golden treasury series, used 1899. See www.henryaltemus.com/series/series99.htm (viewed 13 August 2026).
Series statement and volume number from www.henryaltemus.com/series/series99.htm (viewed 13 August 2026).
Title in red within red and green-gold floriate border; half-title in red on illustrated blue scrollwork background.
Endpapers illustrated in green with publisher's monogram.
Local Notes:
LIBRA Rare BJ1671 .B4 1899 purchased for the Penn Libraries from Patrick Richardson Graham in 2011. Stamp ("BENJ. L. GORDON, M.D.") of Benjamin Lee Gordon on half-title leaf; blue ink stamp ("Benjamin L. Gordon, M.D. 1316 S. 5th Street.") of the same person on verso of frontispiece plate and pages 121 and [260]. Manuscript note in pencil on back pastedown.
OCLC:
1611194607

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