1774 SELINA, COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON. 4pp ALS with Superb Great Awakening Devotional Content Fine BindingAnything related to the Countess, who was nearly the sole financier of the Great Awakening, is scarce. She supported Whitefield and the Wesleys without reserve. She founded her own training college for the new evangelists coming to Christ through their ministries. She then built them chapels all across the United Kingdom, nearly exhausting her vast estate. The present is a really superb content four page autograph letter, entirely in the hand of
Fifth Edition
1774 to August 30
A charming full morocco near-pocket sized Bible retaining its original embossed presentation from the period of the Civil War
A really wonderfully preserved early edition of what amounts to John Bunyan's autobiography
the story is something of a commonplace
Printed for the Proprietors and Sold by W
but gratefully preserved in a very attractive half leather
February 3
begins textually at Matthew 4
it is telling that the only time he ever entered into the public fray in such a dramatic way was on the issue of believers' baptism
which I preach and publish
Missionary to Constantinople / Turkey