The Life of the Apostle Paul (cover title)

(Reading, Pa.: Pilger Book Store, ca. 1880). Pamphlet stitched and set in a blind embossed cloth case binding with gilt-stamped title, 12mo; 39pp. page between 24-25 skipped in pagination. Near Fine with slightest rubbing to tips; front pastedown inscribed "St. John's Luth. S. S." with chromo calling card of Flora A. Fisher and small paper remnant. Copiously illustrated, including maps.

No stated publisher info, but it is printed in the same style, and with the same decorative ruling, as books published by the Pilger Book Store in Reading, Pa., and comes from that area. The title is listed in the publisher's catalog on the last page of the "Luther-Jubilee Book" (1883), indicating it was available in multiple binding styles, but appears otherwise unrecorded. Pilger Book Store was run by August Bendel, who published and sold religious texts in German and English for the local Lutheran community.