An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clake, LL.D., F. A.S., Etc., Etc., Etc. Written by One Who Was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age

First American edition presumed (also published by by B. Waugh and T. Mason in the same year); 7 x 4 1/2; pp. [7], 8-249; full roan over boards; red morocco label and gilt title and ruling to spine; some wear and splitting to leather along spine; occasional age-toning and foxing (most notably to first and last few leaves); in good or better condition.Adam Clarke (1762 - 1832) was a prolific Irish author, biblical scholar, and Methodist theologian - serving three times as President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference. He was also an amateur historian, one of the first to be invited by the Royal Society of Antiquarians to study then-newly-acquired by Britain Rosetta Stone, member of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the American Historical Institute and a Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society.