Newnam rev samuel (3 risultati)

Hardcover. 16mo. 108pp. bw engravings. One has brown marks at the base from flower petals being pressed. Pages browned and prelims foxed. Cloth covers very soiled.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Newnam, Rev. Samuel. The parish apprentice ; or, John Winzer, the Devon Puritan. London: S. W. Partridge, s.d. [circa 1874]. Hardback, Good. Red cloth, bumped to corners, a little rubbed to spine, with old dark damp stain to top quarter of the lower board. Black decoration and gilt lettering to front; gilt lettering to spine and blind embossed decoration to rear. Binding strong. Light tanning to endpapers. 1874 gift inscription to ffep, the ghost of which appears on the recto of the frontispiece. Frontispiece b/w portrait illustration. viii, 108pp., on two paper stocks, one of which has tanned more than the other. A few foxing spots, otherwise contents clean and bright. "The facts this little book contains the author had from the lips of John Winzer himself." North Devon in the early 19th Century was a miserably superstitious and poorly educated rural community, in contrast with its natural beauty. Here John Winzer (1788-1868) was born, born again and became one of the despised 'Anabaptists'. Not a preacher, but an earnest prayerful farmer, he was central to the work of God in the area which brought spiritual light and led to the establishment of several chapels. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. …

1858, Barnstaple, S. Searle & Co., pp130, black and white frontispiece, brown contemporary cloth. Scarce. Samuel Newnam was a minister in the Baptist Chapel, and his lectures reflect his beliefs. Spine bumped and rubbed, otherwise good.