April 12, 2024
Stoddard's Lectures 102 yrs old Complete Set 1-10 with the 4 Supplements 1911
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Top gold gilt. Looks like signed then signature copied. Still researching. Looks like great collectable. Feel free to ask for pics or info. Tons of illustrations.Stoddard was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1850. In 1871 he graduated from Williams College , then two years of theology at Yale Divinity School . After that he taught Latin and French at Boston Latin School .[ 2] He was proud of his descent from Solomon Stoddard .He began traveling around the world in 1874, and published Red-Letter Days Abroad in 1884. He turned his experiences into a series of popular lectures delivered throughout North America. These lectures were periodically published in book form as John L. Stoddard's Lectures and eventually numbered ten volumes and five supplements (1897-1898). [3 ] In 1901, Stoddard published a book on Gibraltar .[ 4] The books include numerous illustrations derived from the immense catalog of photographs taken by Stoddard, and cover every subject, from art and architecture, to archeology and natural history. The books were immensely popular in their day and many copies still survive. Later in life, Stoddard also published poetry, as well as books on religious subjects.Brought up a Protestant, Stoddard was an agnostic for over thirty years, before converting with his wife to Roman Catholicism. In 1922 he published Rebuilding
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