Wonderful original album, as shown, beloging to a member of the Burder Family, one of the most influental Evangelical families of the early 19th century. They helped form missionary societies, had numerous pastors in the family, produced hymnals and theological works, etc., A beautiful folio.
Contents include:
*Finely executed graphite, ink, and watercolor miniature of a robin redbreast with nest and eggs. Unsigned.
*Lengthy 1.5pp inscription, original, by Rev. Henry Forster Burder [1783-1864]. Accompanied by an original poetic version of Revelation 2.17, To each whose name is written here, A pure white stone, by Christ, be given; Whereon, engraven, may appear, That Name which he shall bear in heaven.
Inscribed in 1835 at Hackney by Burder, where he was the Congregational Minister. He helped form the Congregational Union and was one of the most influential men in the period.
He published The Scripture Character of God, or Discourses on the Divine Attributes, London, 1822; Mental Discipline, or Hints on the Cultivation of Intellectual Habits, addressed particularly to Students in Theology and Young Preachers, London, 1822; Lectures on the Pleasures of Religion, London, 1823; Lectures on the Essentials of Religion, Personal, Domestic, and Social, London, 1825; A Collection Psalms and Hymns, Principally for Public Worship, London, 1826; Pastoral Discourses on Revivals in Religion, London, 1829; Memoir of the Rev. George Burder, London, 1833; Notes on the Prophecies of the Apocalypse, London, 1849; Sermons Preached at St. Thomas's Square Chapel, Hackney, London, 1854; etc.
*Full page inscription by Mary Burder [wife of the above] with an original extensive sentiment for the Album.
*Extensive 1.75 inscription by Rev. John Burder, Minister of the Congregational Church at Stroud, on the nature of true religion.
*Original poetic composition by Rev. George Burder, December 1833.
Lady, they name is of an honoured race! Not in the Archives of the World’s dark page; Where all is vain pursuit or maddening rage. Not in the records of the Worldling’s chase, After Ambition, but written on the face, Of God’s own Book of Love! No heathen sage Can boast such fame! O may it be the gage To thee of Heavenly joys, and while thy pace Hastens along this weary mortal round, may thine Ancestral piety become Still more compelling motive to be found With those who are departed than in some High and rapturous Anthems, etc.
*Very fine graphite drawing of Hagar and Ishmael being watched over by the angels in the desert. Unsigned.
*An original 4 stanza poem entitled To Cove-Hithe Ruins inscribed E.R. of Hackney. Apparently unpublished. Accompanied by a near full-page, very fine ink drawing of Cove-Hithe.
*A lengthy, 5-stanza poem by Rev. George Burder of Hackney; apparently unpublished.
*Three stanza poem inscribed by Catherine Augusta Burder.
*Another seven stanza poem inscribed by Catherine August Burder.
*Two stanza poem inscribed H. H. Burder, son of Henry Forster Burder.
*Charming miniature of a gothic church and landscape.
*Original 28 line poem entitled Wrentham by E. R., with an accompanying very accomplished ink drawing of Wrentham. Drawing is indistinctly initialed. It is very accomplished.
Etc. etc.
