Religious Discourses by a Layman.

Size of the binding: 5 ½ in. x 8 ¾ in. Half-title, title page, Preface. viii. 79 pp. + eight-page publisher’s catalogue dated April 25, 1828. Bound in full, dark brown morocco leather by Zaehnsdorf, with their gilt stamp on the lower front inner turn-in, five raised bands on the spine, with gilt titling, double-line borders, and richly gilt inner dentelles, brown watered silk endpapers, top-edge gilt. Fading and light wear to the spine and light fading to the cover margins. A little, very light tan spotting is present to some page margins. With the bookplate of Cleveland, Ohio based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), on the reverse of the front free endpapers. A very scarce item. The Preface has the printed initials "W.S." [Walter Scott]. The titles of the two discourses are: The Christian and Jewish Dispensation Compared, and The Blessedness of the Righteous.