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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Memoirs of the Life.

Portrland: Robert P. Kendall, 1978. Paperback. There is some light wear to the covers and the last few leaves have some creases to the edges; the text is otherwise clean and crisp throughout and all is well bound together.

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Memoirs of the Life of the Reverend George Whitefield.

hansebooks, 2019. Paperback. New. 384 pages. 8.50x5.94x0.98 inches.

Andrus & Starr, 1812. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1812; New Haven; leather covered boards with heavy edge and corner wear; front joint is cracked; boards are showing through; rubbing; frontispiece is missing; interior pages are worn with creases and foxing; pages are very toned; book is housed in a homemade box; From the library of ABAA bookseller, Tom Nicely; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; 316 pages

New-Haven: Joseph Barber, 1812. Very Good-. New-Haven: Joseph Barber, 1812. 12mo (18cm.); full contemporary sheep, maroon gilt spine label; 312pp. (collated complete); engraved portrait frontispiece. Leather rather rubbed and starting to peel at fore-edge margins of both covers, small loss at spine crown, textblock toned and occasionally soiled, contemporary ownership signature of a Cynthia Painter to front free endpaper, with pencil doodle copying frontispiece portrait on following page (maybe also done by Painter?). Overall a Good to Very Good copy with lengthy list of subscribers bound in rear. One of many editions of the life of Anglican evangelist George Whitefield (1714-1770), who served as a missionary in colonial Georgia while still a young minister, returning to England only in order to raise funds to establish an orphanage in Savannah. Later established in Philadelphia, Whitefield launched a preaching career that brought him enormous fame, the American National Biography describing him as… Read More

The 1772 London edition of Whitefield's life, complied by Gillies. Brown leather over boards. B&W illustrations.Front and back cover are completely detached, and are larger than the text block and spine (perhaps replacements?). Leather is worn and black & colored leather on spine is faded and flaking. Small writing on front pages. FFEP is completely loose. Pages are age tanned and stained.

New-York: Hodge and Shober, at the newest printing-office, in Maiden-Lane., M. DCC. LXXIV, 1774. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. [Rare American Engraved Portrait: History of Methodism/Evangelicalism] New York: Hodge and Shober, 1774. Bound in contemporary calf. 12mo. Covers worn, scuffed, with early sewn restoration to spine tail. Foxing, scattered staining throughout. Engraved frontispiece by Elisha Gallaudet, sculpt. N. York, 1772. (Elisha Gallaudet , American, New Rochelle, 1730–1805, New York.) xxiv, [1], 26-311, [1] pages. Includes a list of subscribers, p. [vi]-xviii. Evans 13298. The First American Edition, published two years after the London first edition. <br> Whitefield was an English Anglican cleric who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Whitefield was a moderate Calvinist. He preached and travelled extensively in the British American colonies often to enormous crowds. He left an indelible mark on the nature of… Read More