An antique Victorian edition of "The Christian Year". Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holidays Throughout the Year. Published by Lee and Shepard, Boston; 1875. There is shelf-wear and a small tear and cloth fraying on the upper backstrip. There is elaborate gilt decoration on the cover and backstrip. There is a small white spot near the upper edge of the cover (pictured). The endpages are brown. There is gilt on the foredge. There are fingerprints on a pre-title page. The pages are mostly crisp and white. Size: 7 1/8". 387 pages.
From the front Advertisement, "... The object of the present publication will be attained, if any person find assistance from it in bringing his (her) own thoughts and feelings into more entire unison with those recommended and exemplified in the Prayer Book.
