The Conquest of Canaan; A Poem, in Eleven Books

Hartford, CT: Printed by Elisha Babcock, 1785. First Edition. 304pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm] Full brown calf with a red gilt stamped label on the backstrip. Very good. Gentle rubbing to boards. Inscribed by the author's son, James Dwight, on the front pastedown. Epic poem that contains ideas and concepts familiar to an LDS audience: The Americas given to an ancient Israelite; "celestial fruits"; the throne of God; Cosmology of divinely inspired worlds and beings; ongoing creation; America reserved by God; etc. Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) was an American educator (including the longtime president of Yale), theologian, and poet who had a strong instructive influence during his time. He was a second cousin to Elizabeth Dwight Lathrop, wife of the noted theologian, Joseph Lathrop, who was a distant cousin of Joseph Smith. Mormon Parallels 126. (Inventory #: 9907)