first edition Hardcover
1792 · London
by Cowper, Francis Maria; Jonathan Edwards; Nathaniel Niles; Andrew Fuller
London: Deighton; Kollock; Morris; Kollock, 1792. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First English language edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Four works bound in one volume. Leather spine is heavily rubbed and chipped with exterior hinges starting to crack; decorative paper-covered boards; binding remains intact. Leather spine label is stamped: MISCELANIES. Several works are trimmed at margins. Most have old owner's marks on the title page. Several pages with minor foxing and soiling. A few pages with creases to the corner. First work: "ORIGINAL POEMS" printed for J. Deighton, London: 1792. viii, 115 pages. Top corner of title page chipped. Blank bottom third of the final page has been torn off. Second work: "TRUE GRACE...Devils; In a Sermon, Preached before the Synod of New-York, convened at Newark in New-Jersey, on September 28, N.S. 1752" printed for Shepard Kollock, Elizabethtown: 1791. 43 pages. Evans 23343. Third work: "THE PERFECTION...Sermons, delivered at Torringford, in Connecticut, on Lord's Day, December 21st, 1777" printed by J.W. Morris, Clipstone, Northamptonshire: 1801. New edition. 51 pages, followed by [1] page of publisher's advertisement. Fourth work: "SERMON...TRUTH; Delivered at an Association of Baptist Ministers and Churches, at St. Altan's, Hertfordshire, June 1, 1796" printed by Shepard Kollock, Eliabeth-town, New-Jersey: n.d. [1796]. 36 pages. Evans 30463. In addition to Lady Cowper's poem, these works are early Baptist Sermons and American Congregational Church Sermons..
(Inventory #: 018414)