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A Methodist tract against dancing, cards, theatre and other diversions, written by Jonathan Townley Crane and issued in 1869 by the denominational houses Hitchcock and Walden in Cincinnati and Carlton and Lanahan in New York for church readers. The plates are horizontal chapter headbands cut in line: symmetrical scrolling foliage flanking a central lozenge or shield holding an anchor, cross, lyre or gate, usable as rules, dividers and small emblem frames.
