Cubitt, George. Columbus: or, The Discovery of America. Cincinnati: Walden and Stowe, 1881. [10940]
Gold cloth, blind stamped boards, spine in gilt, some light soil and edge-wear, 7 1/4 x 5 inches, tight. 224 clean pages, illustrated. Good. Hardcover.
The publishers were affiliated with the Methodist Church. This is one of a series of Biographies of Great Adventurers.
"A high moral and religious sentiment is usually connected with the grandest accomplishments of men and their greatest gifts to the world. History is but an aggregation of incomplete biographies - and can never be understood apart from the principles moving the chief actors. This is the reason for the present publications. We feel assured that they will supply a long-felt need in our Sunday-school and Home Libraries." - Introduction.
Rev. George Cubitt (1792-1850), English Wesleyan Methodist minister and historian. He entered the ministry in 1813, and was one of six missionaries sent to Newfoundland in 1816. Upon his return he became assistant to Thomas Jackson at the Methodist Book Room, and was his successor in 1842. "He was a meticulous editor of the works of others and a productive author himself," writing several biographies and historical works. He was also the author of Sketches of Discourses adapted for Sunday Schools and Village Preaching, and Outlines for Pulpit Preparation, being 150 Skeleton Sermons. See entry at A Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland.
