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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 4431973, member: 33&quot;]In case you are wondering...The handwriting on the title page of &quot;A Discourse On Some of the Distinguishing Opinions of Unitarians&quot; says &quot;J Sparks ordination.&quot; I just found that this was a speech given during the installation ceremony of Jared Sparks as a minister at the First Independent (Unitarian) church in Baltimore. Sparks was quite well known as a scholar. He later became president of Harvard University, and was also later a publisher of <i>The North American Review</i> (a distinguished early magazine in America and still published today... but now very different from the 19th century version). Since your copy was the twelfth edition, published 17 years after the delivery of the discourse, I don&#039;t think the note about Sparks adds any value to the piece. It&#039;s just that somebody wanted to make note of it. Here is a biographical page about Sparks: <a href="https://snaccooperative.org/view/41398169" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://snaccooperative.org/view/41398169" rel="nofollow">https://snaccooperative.org/view/41398169</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A previous owner has had all of these tracts bound together. The binding was done some time after the date of the latest published tract. One guess is that the binding was commissioned by the organization whose bookplate is inside. It could have also been done by an earlier owner and the organization acquired it later and placed their bookplate inside.</p><p><br /></p><p>You wondered about rarity. It might be rare to find a volume with all of the particular tracts bound together. That wouldn&#039;t add value to it.The individual one mentioned above doesn&#039;t appear to be rare at all. Somebody would have to research the others to find whether any of them are rare (which wouldn&#039;t necessarily make them valuable, but the research would be a start).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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