PLATFORM ECHOES:
OR LIVING TRUTHS FOR HEAD AND HEART.ILLUSTRATED BY NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED THRILLING ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS, HUMOROUS STORIES, PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, AND ADVENTURES, TOUCHING HOME SCENES, AND TALES OF TENDER PATHOS, DRAWN FROM THE BRIGHT AND SHADY SIDES OF LIFE.

By JOHN B. GOUGH.
WITH A HISTORY OF MR. GOUGH'S LIFE AND WORK,

Superbly illustrated with Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Engravings from Original Designs by the

Most Eminent Artists. 1887

A giant list of illustrations follows this title page. John B. Gough, for those of you who don't know, was a legendary 19th century English temperance reformer. In the years leading up until the constitutional amendment instituting Prohibition, men like Gough were responsible for whipping the masses into an anti-alcohol and anti-alcoholic frenzy. Great engravings of men in the throes of demon drink and of Gough being attacked by surly English youth. Some of the full page illustrations include one of the Old Brewery at Five Points, New York (the old rough area of lower Manhattan), one of a woman beating a bear with a broom (not sure of context, sorry), and one of a satanic looking drunken fiddler and his satanic looking audience. What a great book. Hours of perusing enjoyment. A very thick temperance autobiography. Very thick, 639 pages. Bound in red boards with gold lettering and design. Decorated endpapers.

1887 TEMPERANCE GOUGH Alcoholics Anonymous Bk