HOLT, James P. (owner)

Yalensia Volume 2 [Yale College 1862 ephemera and student Literary Magazine]

New Haven, Connecticut: n.p., 1862. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 463. Bound in three-quarter black roan over marbled paper, edges sprinkled red. Gilt lettering and decoration stamped on the spine. Owner bookplate on FFEP, and light pencilled annotations throughout. Spine edges rubbed, light foxing, else near fine. Very Good+. Item #4832

Rev. James Phillips Hoyt, 1844 - 1925 (B. A. 1864, B. D. 1870) of Coventry, New York, was a sophomore in the Yale Academical Class. He had bound his collection of 1862 printed matter including programs for commencement exercises, musical and oratory presentations, debates, biennial examinations, [Pp. 66]; Yale Banner newspaper page (folded); Catalogue of the Officers and Students with a Statement of the Course of Instruction in the Various Departments, Pp. 60; Yale Literary Magazine Vol. 27, Pp. 336.

Hoyt went on to become a Congregational pastor in Connecticut and Florida, an author and inventor of an early fountain pen. A fine collection of Yale ephemera from a period that included the onset of the Civil War.

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Price: $150.00