In the form of a series of letters from two generations of princes of the Assyrian Empire to their royal sovereigns back in Nineveh and Tadmor, The Throne of David gives the reader ostensibly first-person eyewitness accounts of the life of David from the time he was a young shepherd boy tending his flock in Bethlehem, through his ascension to and reign as the King of first Judah and then all of Israel.
Published originally in 1860 as a follow-up to the wildly successful The Prince of the House of David and its sequel, The Pillar of Fire, this is the third written but the second chronologically of a trilogy of epistolary novels by Reverend Joseph Holt Ingraham called the Hebraic Power Trilogy. The Pillar of Fire (1859) is intended to illustrate the beginning of Hebraic power, The Throne of David (1860) its culmination, and The Prince of the House of David (1855) its decadence. This particular digital version was transcribed from a 1865 re-print edition with four illustrations, and enhanced by the addition of a further seven illustrations intended to accentuate the reality and emotion of the story of Saul, David, and Solomon.
Preparing old books for digital publication is a labor of love at Travelyn Publishing. We hold our digital versions of public domain books up against any others with no fear of the comparison. Our conversion work is meticulous, utilizing a process designed to eliminate errors, maximize reader enjoyment, and recreate as much as possible the atmosphere of the original book even as we are adding the navigation and formatting necessary for a good digital book. While remaining faithful to a writer's original words, and the spellings and usages of his era, we are not above correcting obvious mistakes. If the printer became distracted after placing an 'a' at the end of a line and then placed another 'a' at the beginning of the next line (they used to do this stuff by hand you know!), what sort of mindless robots would allow that careless error to be preserved for all eternity in the digital version, too? Not us. That's why we have the audacity to claim that our re-publications are often better than the originals.
