NEW MANUAL OF PRIVATE DEVOTIONS. In Three Parts Part I. Containing Prayers for Families and Private Persons. Part II. Containing Offices, I. of Humiliation; II. For The Sick; III. For Women with Child. Part II. Consisting of an Office for The Holy Communion: To Which Are Added Some Occasional Prayers.

Published by P. Hoff, Charleston, SC, 1825

About this Item

2nd Charleston editon, 1825. A Good- copy. Small 8vo., 371 pp., bound in full gilt decorated green leather. Leather chipping with losses on spine, edges and tips. Front and rear boards are loose but still attached. Inscription on title page. And pencil writing on rear end papers. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout. Inscription on title page from James Hogg to Mary Edmondston. Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist that moved to North Carolina. Hogg was a patriot in the Revolution serving on Hillsborough s Committee of Safety. As a trustee of the University of North Carolina from 1789 to 1802, Hogg exerted strong influence in favor of Chapel Hill as the location for the school. Hogg s first Hillsborough home was a small log house on the south side of the Eno River. It is there that the organization of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati is reputed to have taken place in 1783.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NEW MANUAL OF PRIVATE DEVOTIONS. In Three Parts Part I. Containing Prayers for Families and Private Persons. Part II. Containing Offices, I. of Humiliation; II. For The Sick; III. For Women with Child. Part II. Consisting of an Office for The Holy Communion: To Which Are Added Some Occasional Prayers.
• Publisher: P. Hoff, Charleston, SC
• Publication Date: 1825
• Binding: Leather
• Edition: 2nd Charleston edition.
• Condition: Good-
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