Christ Rejected: or, the Trial of the Eleven Disciples of Christ

Front board had become detached along with front endpapers, probably a half-title and other pages missing, the next page remaining is the title page. Title page has been torn and repaired. Red leather binding with gilt decoration to edges and to spine has minor bumping to corners and some scuffing to spine ends, but otherwise a not too bad copy of this not-very-common book. Published under the assumed name of "Captain Onesimus", the author was one John Hewson, according to the copyright information on rev of title page. This is the first edition, printed for the author in Philadelphia in 1832; there was another edition published in Trenton, NJ in 1834. . The complete title reads: "Christ Rejected: or, the Trial of the Eleven Disciples of Christ, in a Court of Law and Equity, as Charged with Stealing the Crucified Body of Christ out of the Sepulchre. Humbly dedicated to the whole nation of the Jews, which are scattered abroad on the face of the earth; and to the Deists of modern times. Designed also as a help to wavering Christians". 444pp, some b&w drawings. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.