Sect Clapham (5 results)

22 x 14 cm. Condition: Gut. 4 sheet, XV pages, With 132 title pages with illustration and three pages of text. Original linen cover with blind embossing and gold writing on the spine. Only very minimally stained, in very good condition. advertisement and Indexwith some browning, inside in top condition. Complete series of messages from Christmas 1816 to Christmas 1848. The Church Mission Society (CMS), formerly known as the Church Missionary Society, is a British mission society working with the Christians around the world. Founded in 1799, CMS has attracted over nine thousand men and women to serve as mission partners during its 200-year history. The society has also given its name "CMS" to a number of daughter organisations around the world, including Australia and New Zealand, which have now become independent. Quelle: Wikipedia Auszug UG120 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 660.

Venn features in the Oxford DNB article on his father Henry Venn (1725-1797). In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. Two rectangles cut from a letter, laid down on one side of a 14 x 5.5 cm piece of thicker paper. The first rectangle, 12.5 x 2.5 cm, carries the conclusion of the letter: '[.]ain are truly I am my dear / your ever faithful & affect Friend / J Venn'. At the foot of the slip, in pencil in a Victorian hand: 'X (Son of "Complete duty of Man"). Beneath this slip is the second one, 9 x 1.5 cm, which gives the date: 'Clapham 10 Sepr. 1810'.

3pp., 4to. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with minor traces of previous mounting on reverse of second leaf. She writes 'as a stranger' to the recipient: 'the person who now addresses you is a Daughter of the late Revd. Richd. Cecil, whose works you are probably well acquainted with'. She is about to publish a book which she is 'induced to think would have a very good sale in America' and has been recommended to apply to the recipient 'as a Person likely to be willing to enter into negociation with me on the subject'. She names the 'very competent judges' by whom the work has been revised': 'The late Revd. Charles Simeon of Kings College Cambridge; - The Revd. Thos. Webster, Editor of the Christian Guardian; the Revd. Wm. Carus of Trinity College, Cambridge, Successor to the Revd. Charles Simeo; and the Revd. Josiah Pratt, the well known Editor of the late Revd. Richd. Cecil's Works: also by the Revd. Wm. Cecil, Rector of Long Stanton near Cambridge.' All the editors have expressed 'their belief that it will be a rich treasure to the religious Public'. She wishes the book to be 'out in May', in 'one volume Post Octavo, about 600 pages: in the same style and type as the works of the late Mrs Hannah More', and she 'would send you out proof sheets four times a month'. 'I beg to enquire what you will allow me for the Copyright, and how much upon each editon of 1000 printed afterwards.' The American edition of the 'Memoirs of Mrs. Hawkes' was published , 'From the second London edition', by J. Whetham of Philadelphia in 1838. See the reference to Catharine Cecil in John Alonzo Clark's 'Glimpses of the Old World' (1840).

2pp., 12mo. With mourning border. In fair condition, but with thin strip lacking along one edge, resulting in slight loss of text. A stylish letter. He finds it 'almost ludicrous' that 'a person whose property, such as it is, lies chiefly in another County' should have anything to say 'about the Staffordshire election', but he 'had wished' that the recipient of the letter 'might fill the present vacancy when I had not ever seen your name connected with it'. He would be pleased to be given 'an opportunity of offering' him his 'vote & the singularly trifling interest'.

The three letters are in good condition, lightly aged and worn, with minor evidence of previous mounting in an album. ONE: 24 February 1806. 1p, 4to. Signed 'Thomas Gisborne.' The subject of the letter is Woodhouse's translation of the Apocalypse, prefixed by 'a dissertation on the divine origin of the book', published the previous year. Gisborne writes that on his 'return from Leicestershire' the previous Friday, he found Woodhouse's 'very obliging present'. He has 'only read the Introduction, & rather more than a third of the Dissertation', but 'the former is so sound & scriptural, & the latter, as far as I have proceeded, so decidedly conclusive', that Gisborne's 'expectations respecting the remainder of the volume are raised very high'. The 'inspired book' on which Woodhouse comments is 'particularly interesting' to Gisborne, and he hopes that 'under the divine blessing, the labour which you have bestowed upon it will not be without some fruit to myself'. TWO: 2 May 1806. 2pp, 4to. Signed 'Thos. Gisborne.' Bifolium, addressed, with two postmarks, on reverse of second leaf, to 'The Revd. Mr. Archdeacon Woodhouse, | Swinnerton, | near | Newcastle under Line. [sic]' Gisborne has sent Woodhouse a copy of his 'Observations on the Plan for Training the People to the Use of Arms, with Reference to the Subject of Sunday Drilling', and he writes that Woodhouse is 'very good in accepting the little Pamphlet so favorably'. On the question of the 'circulation' of the pamphlet he states that he 'merely sent copies to some few friends. But the Bishop of London (who is exerting himself with extreme earnestness, as well as many other Prelates, against Sunday Drilling,) has desired that it may be distributed widely among the Members of the Legislature: & that measure is in consequence adopted.' He has 'cordial satisfaction' in Woodhouse's 'concurrence of sentiment on this whole subject.' Returning to Woodhouse's edition of the Apocalypse he writes that he has 'continued with attention the perusal of your important Volume', although circumstances have prevented him from reaching the conclusion. 'In me you found a reader encumbered with many prejudices. Some of them you have shaken to their foundations. In other points you have filled me with doubt: & have at least taught me that much ground which I regarded as solid require new & close examination.' He hopes after finishing the book to reread it. 'At present I am embarrassed by finding so much new matter brought before me.' He suggests the addition of a 'short analysis' to subsequent editions, 'giving a summary of your interpretation of all the leading parts of the Prophecy'. Woodhouse does him 'too much honor', in thinking him 'likely to suggest material corrections'. On the question of 'unfulfilled Prophecies, prophecies too which appear to be so constructed that the accomplishment of the latter parts shall reflect light on the import of the former, room for various doubts seem likely to remain'. In a postscript he suggests the making of a manuscript correction to a misprint in his own pamphlet. THREE: 25 June 1828. Signed 'T: Gisborne.' 1p, 4to. Clearly referring to Woodhouse's 'Annotations on the Apocalypse', published that year, Gisborne writes: 'I can have no doubt that it is to your kindness that I am indebted for a copy of your new publication, which has recently come to my hands.' He is 'sincerely glad that it has pleased God to continue to [Woodhouse] the health & strength requisite for completing a work seldom parallelled [sic] by an individual at so advanced a season of life'. He hopes that the book 'will be made very useful to Biblical students of whatever age.'.