The Sunday at Home, Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading, 1890-91

Bound volume containing issues nos. 1905 (November 1890) to nos. 1952 (September 1891), twelve issues, of The Sunday at Home, a monthly magazine. 844p, twelve coloured or toned plate illustrations, numerous large engraved illustrations and further vignettes and page decorations in text.. In green cloth boards with extensive gilt and black decorations and lettering on front panel and spine, single black design on rear panel. Bevelled edges. 4to. Boards moderately rubbed at edges, slightly frayed at spine tips and a tad sunned over spine. Text block edges toned. Front hinge cracked. Spotted on endpapers.

The Sunday at Home was a monthly magazine from the late 19th century, containing a selection of articles, stories, verse etc designed for family reading. Articles and stories appearing in the issues containing in this handsomely bound annual volume include A Story of Constance; Catherine Booth; A Sister's Devotion - A Leaf from the Diary of an Australian Clergyman; From Canterbury Gate (about the building of a cathedral designed to rival Canterbury Cathedral); On Marriage and Death; Travancore and Christian Missons; Neil McAra, Crofter; The Money-lender and the Tenant; The Race-types of the Egyptian Monuments; Social Life among the Assyrians and Babylonians; Invalid Children; The Heavenly Foot Society; The Hospital of Noble Poverty; John A-Lasco, the Reformer of Poland; The Rev William Tyler, Preacher and Philanthropist; Heroes of the Goodwin Sands; Thomas Valpy French, First Bishop of Lahore, etc.