A NEW HISTORY OF METHODISM (A complete two volume set - illustrated)

A two volume complete set of this work, with both volumes being first printings of the first edition published in 1909. ***Profusely illustrated with plates including full-page tissue-guarded colour frontispiece to Volume I. showing: 'John Wesley after the painting by J. M. Williams, R.A. circa 1742. Reproduced by special permission from the original in Didsbury Wesleyan College, Manchester. Both volumes have a period bookplate to the front free endpaper: 'ex Libris Muff'. ***Volume I: Illustrated with thirty-two black and white plates plus tissue-guarded colour frontispiece. Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and double rules to spine. Head and tail of spine rubbed and frayed. Small split and fraying to head of spine cloth. Interior pages and plates clean. All plates present as called for. Spine tight. A hint of sporadic foxing to margins of a few pages. No dustwrapper. ***xx prelim-pages including preface, complete with tipped-in errata slip (as called for), and list of illustrations plus 598 pages. ***Volume II: Illustrated with thirty-two black and white plates plus tissue-guarded frontispiece showing: Francis Asbury reproduced from the portrait painted by Bruff in 1808 and now in Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, U.S.A. Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and double rules to spine. Head and tail of spine rubbed and frayed. Interior pages and plates clean. All plates present as called for. Spine tight. Hint of very light sporadic foxing to a few margins of pages. No dustwrapper. xvi prelim-pages including contents and complete with tipped-in errata slip (as called for), and list of illustrations plus 676 pages including index to rear and folding chart of statistics of methodism 1908. ***248 mm x 178mm. ***'For some time a History of Methodism has been required which should utilize the results of recent study upon the origins of the Methodist churches, manifest the sense of their oneness which all feel increasingly, and set forth worldwide Methodism as a branch of the Church Catholic with its own notes and an essential unity underlying its several forms in many lands. "A New History of Methodism" is designed to do this. It may claim this title, since not only is it the result of fresh study of the sources, but its plan and method have not been previously employed in Methodism histories. (Quote taken from the Preface) ***A very well presented and detailed work on the history of Methodism. A heavy two volume set, now over a hundred years old. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate. ***PLEASE NOTE: This two volume set is heavy - please contact us for shipping rates if you live outside the UK.…