An extract of the Christian's Pattern; or, a treatise of the imitation of Christ

Book Description

Philadelphia: Pr. by Joseph Crukshank for John Dickins, 1794. Contemporary sheep, binding overall showing scuffs and small cracks. Endpapers and fly-leaf with early inked ownership inscriptions; title-page verso institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages age-toned and spotted, with intermittent pencilled bracketing; a few leaves starting to separate.. 12mo (10.1 cm, 4"). 306, [14 (index & adv.)] pp. Early American printing of John Wesley's abridged version of the Imitatio Christi, following the London first edition of 1741. This was one of a series of works published by John Dickins, an early Methodist preacher, for the use of Methodist Societies in the U.S.; Dickins's publishing operation eventually became the Methodist Publishing House, still in business today as the United Methodist Publishing House. Provenance: An interesting array of ownership inscriptions: "Abigail Davis Book Given her By her Friend [Master?] Vaughan" — "Abigail Davis Book"— "Abigail Davis" — "Abigail Vaughan, Her Book," this last written largest of all. ("Reader, I married him"?)

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