RARE 1818 Sermon: Death of Mrs. ISAIAH THOMAS Signed by Grandson ISAIAH THOMAS for Sale

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RARE 1818 Sermon: Death of Mrs. ISAIAH THOMAS Signed by Grandson ISAIAH THOMAS For Sale

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RARE 1818 Sermon: Death of Mrs. ISAIAH THOMAS Signed by Grandson ISAIAH THOMAS:
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Offered here is a rare [upon the death of his wife Mary, Isaiah Thomas had only 200 copies of this pamphlet printed] pamphlet entitled: The Leaf an Emblem of Human Life. A Sermon, Delivered November 22, 1818, The Sunday Following The Internment Of Mrs. Mary Thomas, by Aaron Bancroft, D.D., printed by William Manning (Worcester) in 1818, First Edition, 5 1/4\" x 8 1/2\"; 23pp. Paper covers are stained and detached [barely holding on now, sold as detached], signed on front cover \"Master Isaiah Thomas\", light toning, scattered foxing-- overall quite good. Isaiah Thomas the III was only thirteen years old when his grandmother passed away. His father, Isaiah Thomas, Jr. would himself, tragically, pass away in 1819 from a fall. Isaiah Thomas III would also have a tragic end, passing away with three of his children in 1862, all lost at sea. ISAIAH THOMAS (1749-1831) was the foremost printer of the generation that came of age during the American Revolution. He was instrumental in starting the Revolution and once the new nation was founded he became its principal and most successful printer, publisher, and bookseller. His success made him one of the wealthiest men in the country. Thomas’s career is made even more remarkable by the fact that he was entirely a self-made man. In 1812, Thomas founded the American Antiquarian Society, designed to be a learned society and national institution dedicated to preserving the written record of the United States. Thomas’s own collection of books, newspapers, and ephemera formed the basis of this collection, and his philosophy of collecting continues to shape the way Americans understand the past today. ISAIAH THOMAS, JR. (1773-1819) was born in Boston, the only son of Isaiah Thomas, Sr., Isaiah Thomas, Jr. was one of the incorporators of the American Antiquarian Society in 1812. He also served as the Society\'s treasurer from 1813 until his death in 1819. He was remembered as \'a man of large intelligence and fond of books, wrote with ease and rapidity, of excellent conversational powers, fond of and devoted to his home and family.\' Thomas was taught the business of printing by his father and started his career as a bookseller in 1792 at the age of nineteen. Five years later he married Mary Weld, the daughter of a wealthy Boston merchant. In 1799 he became the co-publisher of the Massachusetts Spy, sharing the masthead with his father until 1801, when he was made the sole publisher and editor. Thomas bought out his father\'s large printing, papermaking and publishing business in 1802 when Isaiah Thomas, Sr., retired. In 1810 the younger Thomas moved to Boston, and continued to issue the Spy and the family\'s almanac, as well as to print books such as Bernhard Faust\'s A New Guide to Health (1810) and Charles Robbins\'s The Drum & Fife Instructor (1812). Thomas\'s business interests were adversely affected by the War of 1812. He sold the Spy in that year and tried to expand his bookselling business by opening shops in Connecticut, Maine, and Maryland. He continued to issue a variety of almanacs and books. Copies of many of his publications are preserved in the imprint collection of the American Antiquarian Society. Thomas died in Boston in the summer of 1819 following an accident. His father noted in his diary on June 25th, \'My son died, aged 45 years, occasioned by the wounds he received by a Fall the Evening before.\' Two days later, Isaiah Thomas, Jr., who left a widow and nine children, was buried in Worcester. His father wrote, \'My son\'s remains were deposited in my tomb in the North burying ground this morning at 8 o\'clock. Prayers by Dr. Freeman at the house of Eben T. Andrews - from whence the corpse was carried to the burying ground.\' LEONARD WORCESTER (1767-1846) served an apprenticeship in the printing office of Isaiah Thomas, Esq., Worcester, Mass., after which he was for several years editor, printer and publisher of the \"Massachusetts Spy\". He was chosen a deacon of the First Church, Worcester, in 1795, licensed to preach Mar. 12, 1799, ordained pastor of the Cong. Church, Peacham, Vt., Oct. 30, 1799, discharged the duties of his office until 1837, when he left Peacham on account of ill health and resided with his sons in Littleton, N.H., and St. Johnsbury, Vt., until his decease at the latter place. His remains were removed to Peacham for interment. Four of his sons entered the ministry, the ordination of each being preached by their father. He received the degree A.M. from Middlebury, 1804, and from Dartmouth in 1827. He printed numerous sermons and controversial pamphlets.