PRE-ISBN.Tan leather bound, gilt tooling to front, back, spine, and u0026 edges. Embossed decoration front and back. Marbled endpapers and page edges.From the Author's Preface (Edgbaston, September 13, 1828):" ... Let the two parties in wedded life, be believers in Christ Jesus, and partake themselves of the peace that passeth understanding; let them, when they become a father and a mother, bring up their children in the fear of God; and as a master and a mistress, be diligent and successful in instructing their servants in the principles of religion, and if happiness is to be found on earth, it will be enjoyed within the hallowed circle of a family, thus united by love, and sanctified by grace.The Author does not deny, that much of worldly comfort may be, and often is, enjoyed in some families, which neither possess nor profess a serious regard to the claims of religion; while it must be acknowledged on the other hand, that there are to be found professors of religion, whose households are anything but happy ones. In reference to the former, it may be affirmed, that piety, while it would raise their enjoyment to a sublime kind, and a higher degree of happiness in this world, would also perpetuate it through eternity; and in reference to the latter, it may be remarked, that their disquietude is not produced by religion, but occasioned by the lack of it. ..."_