Early Princeton printing by Collins Varnum Lansing 1870-1936

Author:Collins, Varnum Lansing, 1870-1936
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Published: 1911-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

the two American periodicals of the time^ so its editor claims, devoted solely to education. It was printed by a young man named Robert E. Hornor, then just beginning his career. A perusal of the few-numbers preserved in the Universit}^ Library leads to the suspicion that the "Journal" was in reality a skillfully veiled advertisement-6^ the institution that Dr. Wines so ably directed. The history and '»fiiethods of Edgehill School are writ large ' iipoti its pages. Admirably produced though it was, it nevertheless soon increased by one the dismal ranks of Princeton magazine failures.

It was during these early years that ^Ir. Hornor printed for its pseudonymous author a remarkable volume which enjoyed unprecedented popularity and is believed to have been Princeton's first illustrated book, viz.. Captain Onesimus' "Christ Rejected: or, the Trial of the Eleven Disciples of Christ, in a Court of Law and Equity, as charged with stealing the Crucified Body of Christ, out of the Sepulchre." The third edition was issued in 1835 with a copyright dated 1832. The first and

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