A superb first edition of one of the most influential series of lectures on preaching ever delivered. Please note it is indicated as the "Third Series" as it was the third year for the Yale series. The present is the complete first edition of the full lectures by Beecher. 

Beecher, Henry Ward. Yale Lectures on Preaching. Delivered before the Theological Department of Yale College, New Haven, Conn. in the Regular Course of the Lyman Beecher Lectureship on Preaching. From Phonographic Reports by T. J. Ellinwood. Third Series. New York. J. B. Ford and Company. 1874. First Edition. 326pp.

 Very good in very attractive half leather binding with marbled boards, raised bands, and double contrasting title and author spine labels. Very solid and clean with only minor rubbing.