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1903 · 050159 — Cincinnati Ohio USA: Jennings and Pye 1903. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 386pp. Author's port. tipped on to title page as published. Frontis illustration w tissue guard paper intact. Top edge of text block gold gilt fore and bottom edges rough cut. Green cloth w gold border and gold lettering to front cover gold lettering to spine. Bumping to corners head and tail. Joints and hinges sound. Octavo. Canadian clergyman and author Arthur John Lockhart 1850-1922 was born in Lockhartville Nova Scotia and wrote under pseudonym Pastor Felix. He inscribed this book to his nephew Nathan J. Lockhart who perished at sea only six months after being married. The book was passed on to his son Nathan who was yet to be born when his father was gifted the book. "The sea claimed him and some untoward fate was his we know not what. He had just married and set up a home. His bride was Nancy Whitman of Aylesford N. S. who six months after her marriage faced the dreadful intelligence that her husband had perished at sea. My mother never wholly recovered from that blow. A son was born to him who he never saw - a second Nathan who is a lawyer in the Canadian West." - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton The History of Kings County 1909. pp727-732. <br/> <br/> Jennings and Pye hardcover