A Select Collection of Hymns, to be Universally Sung in All of the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapels. Collected By Her Ladyship

[Huntingdon, Countess of; Hastings, Selina]; Hymnal

Published by Hughes & Walsh, London, 1785

About this Item

[18], 432p [ie. pi1, a8, A-2D8]. Full contemporary calf, raised bands, spine in four panels, panels gilt with panels one and three with a larger roundel, two and four with a slightly smaller roundel, spot patterned marbled endpapers. Spine slightly creased, gilt dulled generally and largely absent from first panel, worn to extremities, corners bumped, lacking head band. Old repairs to ffep and reverse of title, text lightly browned, with a few corners gently creased, a couple of former owner's names to ffeps. Engraved title by Charles Blackbeard (1756-1827 or later), engraver and miniature painter (see Alexander, 'A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers 1714-1820', pages 119-120). There were several editions of the hymnal, the first being published in 1780. Hastings [née Shirley], Selina, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791), founder of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. A Methodist convert, she later "shifted towards Calvinistic predestination" (ODNB). She eventually seceded from the Church of England, after her 'private' Spa Fields chapel, seating over two thousand, was found to be in breach of an order of the ecclesiastical court, and her chaplain was barred from preaching. By 1783, the now rigidly Calvinistic 'Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion' was born. She established over sixty chapels, and twenty-three are still today "supervised by the evangelical Christian denomination, the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion" (ODNB). ESTC T57105 Size: 48mo (Oblong).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Select Collection of Hymns, to be Universally Sung in All of the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapels. Collected By Her Ladyship
• Publisher: Hughes & Walsh, London
• Publication Date: 1785
• Binding: Hardback
• Illustrator: Blackbeard, Charles
• Edition: First Thus.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Eighteenth Century
  • Theology and Freethought