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W S Rainsford - The Story of a Varied Life An Autobiography - Fine Binding 1922
W S Rainsford - The Story of a Varied Life An Autobiography - Fine Binding 1922
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The Story of a Varied Life;
An Autobiography
By W S Rainsford
Fine Binding by 'The French Binders Garden City, New York' (as marked on front endpaper.
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1922. First Edition. Fine binding, half leather with gilt spine, marble endpapers, gilt to top edge, 473 pages, illustrated.
CONDITION
A lovely finely bound first edition. The leather binding remains good, front cloth board has a light grubby mark. Endpapers very good. No writing or names. Pages good throughout. Little spotting to the tissue guard that protects the frontis. Overall a good first edition in a handsome binding.
William Stephen Rainsford (October 30, 1850 − December 17, 1933) was the rector of St. George's Church in Stuyvesant Square in New York from 1882 to 1906.
He was born in Dublin to Marcus Rainsford, who was a chaplain in a hospital for the blind. He attended Cambridge University and spent time in the south of France, suspending his studies for health reasons.
When he left France, with Herbert Watney, he led a group of 800 people emigrating from the London slums to western Canada. He became a curate at the Parish of St. Giles in Norwich in England, and after four years accepted an offer to preach in New York for four months. In 1878, he took a position at St. James's Cathedral in Toronto.
In May 1882, the vestry of St. George's Church, which included J. Pierpont Morgan, offered the post of rector to Rainsford; several members of the vestry had heard Rainsford preach when he was in New York. The church was under some stress, because of changes in the local population and a substantial debt of $35,000. After some negotiations he accepted. Rainsford is reported to have said that after a month of his sermons seven of the fourteen families still attending the church had left, but after that point the church's membership grew.
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An Autobiography
By W S Rainsford
Fine Binding by 'The French Binders Garden City, New York' (as marked on front endpaper.
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1922. First Edition. Fine binding, half leather with gilt spine, marble endpapers, gilt to top edge, 473 pages, illustrated.
CONDITION
A lovely finely bound first edition. The leather binding remains good, front cloth board has a light grubby mark. Endpapers very good. No writing or names. Pages good throughout. Little spotting to the tissue guard that protects the frontis. Overall a good first edition in a handsome binding.
William Stephen Rainsford (October 30, 1850 − December 17, 1933) was the rector of St. George's Church in Stuyvesant Square in New York from 1882 to 1906.
He was born in Dublin to Marcus Rainsford, who was a chaplain in a hospital for the blind. He attended Cambridge University and spent time in the south of France, suspending his studies for health reasons.
When he left France, with Herbert Watney, he led a group of 800 people emigrating from the London slums to western Canada. He became a curate at the Parish of St. Giles in Norwich in England, and after four years accepted an offer to preach in New York for four months. In 1878, he took a position at St. James's Cathedral in Toronto.
In May 1882, the vestry of St. George's Church, which included J. Pierpont Morgan, offered the post of rector to Rainsford; several members of the vestry had heard Rainsford preach when he was in New York. The church was under some stress, because of changes in the local population and a substantial debt of $35,000. After some negotiations he accepted. Rainsford is reported to have said that after a month of his sermons seven of the fourteen families still attending the church had left, but after that point the church's membership grew.
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