Johnstone Rev Thomas (3 results)

Hard. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Blue paper covered boards rather grubby and soiled, beige paper covered spine has loss and heavy rubbing, including to the title label. Front hinge has cracked and has a tape repair, page edges ruffled, occasional patch of foxing, otherwise pages are clean and bright, includes fold-out map to front. Owner names to front endpapers. Size: 8vo.

2pp., 4to. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with slight loss to text from breaking open of seal, and some repair with archival tape, and a square of paper neatly cut away from second leaf. Addressed, with postmark, on reverse of second leaf, to 'Revd G Johnstone | Methodist Chapel | Kingstone | Jamaica'. Letter on one page and 'Mr G Johnstone Dr in account with T Blanshard'. Writing to his 'Dear Bro[th]er', he hopes that Johnstone will be able to settle the annexed account 'at your ensuing District Meeting'. He hopes that he has 'done something' to clear the remainder of 'the Stock so accumulated and then abandond [sic] by Mr Wiggins'. He hopes 'the good Work continues still to flourish in the different Stations in your Island', and states that he has been 'visited with the grievous afflction of Widowhood'. The letter ends with a reference to 'your old Friend Bror Strangeways'.The account covers dates between 1814 and 1820, regarding debits (one 'Preacher's fund' and nine 'To Books') amounting to £356 19s 8d, with a balance of £73 7s 10d owing (after payments 'By Cash' and By J Wood'). At the foot of the page another hand (presumably Johnstone's) has made financial calculations, involving various shipments, with the names given of two ships and their captains. For more on Johnstone see the letters of Dr Thomas Coke (2013), edited by J. A. Vickers, in which a footnote states that Johnstone 'was ordained by Coke at Hull to go to Antigua in support of John Baxter. He died in Jamaica in 1821, having succumbed to a fever after overworking himself.'.

First Edition. Duodecimo, pp., vii, 6-234, plus fold-out frontispiece plan of Berwick with engraved vignette. Black quarter calf over marbled paper; tilted and ornamented in gilt to spine; gilt rolls to boards and edges; all edges sprinkled red. Rubbing to boards, particularly to edges, shelf-wear to spine tips, top edge dusty. Slight even toning to contents, else clean and neat. A very well-preserved copy. A charmingly printed and bound history of the border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, with an English translation of the charter granted by James I of Scotland. Printed by Henry Richardson (d. 1823), who also printed Ridpaths' Border History (1810), editions of Burns, Samuel Johnson, and other works of Scots history (Hunt 78). The rarest history of Berwick-upon-Tweed.