Cooley, Timothy Mather. Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 12mo, original pub lisher's blindstamped purple cloth, unevenly faded; gilt title on spine. New York: Harper, 1838 E150/250 SECOND

Cooley, Timothy Mather. Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 12mo, original pub lisher's blindstamped purple cloth, unevenly faded; gilt title on spine. New York: Harper, 1838 E150/250 SECOND EDITION, printed a year after the first. Haynes has the distinction of being an African-American pastor with an almost totally white "flock." The book has many of his important sermons. Schomburg Collection, Sc. rare B-Haynes (1837; 1839 editions); Blockson 8993.