Lot: 31
19th Cent. Biographies of Wesleyan Ministers comprising Harris A Memoir of the Rev. William Bramwell, n.d.; Benson Life of the Revd. John Fletcher, 1839; and The Life of the Rev.Adam Clark, Joseph Smith, 1837; all in orig. (faded) cloth bindings, two skilfully recased with new endpapers; two with engraved portraits. (3)
Lot: 37
Illustrated Guide to the Church Congress Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition Stoke on Trent 1911, illustrated card wraps, some wear, folding Map with skilful repair and additional folding plan. Good clean text; vi, 280pp including advertisements.
Lot: 47
J.J.B. Clarke (Ed.) An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke, LL.D., T.S. Clarke, London, 1833, three volumes, bound in half-leather, gilt, marbled boards & endpapers; some wear; frontispiece to Vol.1 with some foxing, a further plate in Vol.2. Some occasional minor spotting. (3)
Lot: 60
Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Property & Revenues of the Church…with Appendices, Church Assembly and SPCK, 1924; quarto, original printed boards, worn; ex.Westminster Library; VG internally. 412pp
Lot: 61
The Newcastle Diocesan Year Book, for 1959, 1960, 1965 and 1966; SPCK, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; original printed wraps, cover of 1965 issue discoloured; each approx. 116pp plus index and adverts; together with Charles Trevelyan Wallington: Its History and Treasures, 1939, signed and inscribed by the author. Good/VG (5)
Lot: 101
Philaletheses [Thomas Taylor] An Appeal to the Public: whether a Calvinist can, with a good conscience, be a Minister of the Church of England. 1780. A pamphlet. 12pp. Disbound. VG
Lot: 102
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Oxford, 1868, octavo, full blind-tooled morocco, gilt title, a.e.g.; brass corners & clasps, two ribbon markers; 1880 gift inscription and some foxing to free endpaper o/w fine and attractive.
Lot: 103
Samuel Jackson (1785-1861) Nine Pamphlets on the education of children in Wesleyan Day and Sunday Schools, Leeds and London, 1847-59. Disbound. Eight with original printed wraps (one with rear cover missing). VG. Also four related papers. (13)
Lot: 104
The Holy Bible with the Apocrypha, Henry Frowde & C.F. Clay, London, 1912; thin paper edition, octavo; fine binding by Bumpus in maroon morocco, gilt, raised bands ending in trefoils, a.e.g.; neat gift inscription dated 1922 to free endpaper.
Lot: 105
Madame Guyon A Short and Easy Method of Prayer, H.R. Allenson, [c.1906], small octavo, privately bound in carved wooden boards, satin backstrip. A fine & unusual binding. Ownership inscription to front endpaper dated 1906
Lot: 106
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, Rivingtons, Cambridge & London c.1870; crown 8vo, fine binding by Townsend of Sheffield in purple morocco with elaborate gilt decoration, raised bands, gilt dentelles to inner margins of boards and gauffered gilt edges with a fleur de lys pattern, ribbon bookmarker. Endpapers foxed, ownership inscription partly erased, first leaf of Genesis torn & in need of repair.