Valuable Letters, Essays, and Other Papers of the Late Reverend John Elias, of Anglesea: Together with Observations on his Publications.

MORGAN, Rev. EDWARD (1783-1869) Welsh Calvinistic Methodist preacher. Valuable Letters, Essays, and Other Papers of the Late Reverend John Elias, of Anglesea: Together with Observations on his Publications. Carnarvon : H. Humphreys. 1847. Small 8vo. First edition. xvi, 296 pp. Original black, blind-stamped covers with gilt title on spine in clean and sound condition. Contents clean, crisp and unmarked. A very nice copy of this uncommon first edition. Biography of a great Welsh preacher connected with major revival in Anglesey. Later published as part of a revised combined edition of "Memoir of John Elias" 1844 and "Letters, Essays, and Other Papers" 1847. Edward Morgan, takes us at once to the heart of this dramatic epoch, for Elias, through nearly half a century, was at the centre of events and was himself, in the words of Dr. Owen Thomas "without a doubt the most popular preacher that ever rose in Wales".