The Prince of the House of David

In the form of a series of letters from a young Jewish girl in Jerusalem to her father in Alexandria, The Prince of the House of David gives the reader an ostensibly first-person eyewitness account of the final three years of the life, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Even though in fictional guise, reading such a realistic account of the greatest story ever told is a thrill—even for non-Christians.

Published originally in 1855, The Prince of the House of David is the third and most famous of a trilogy of epistolary novels by Joseph Holt Ingraham, though it was actually written first.  The Pillar of Fire (1859) was 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 taken from an 1898 revised edition of the classic Christian book and includes eleven illustrations of Holy Land locations mentioned in the story.

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.