Very fine and attractive fine print edition of the famed hymn, Sweet By and By, beautifully inscribed by its author, S. Fillmore Bennett, who had been a Second Lieutenant in the Civil War. His faith was deeply influenced by the carnage and heroism he witnessed during the war between the states.

[Hymns, Autographs, Civil War]. Bennett, S. Fillmore. Sweet By and By. Illustrated. New York. E. P. Dutton and Company. 1885. 32pp.

Near fine in original decorative cloth with elaborate and crisp gold and black embossing. Sight handling soil to the cloth at the extremities and the spine hand-titled in the period. Sound, crisp, and clean.