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12mo. Six titles in contemp. half sheep, marbled paper boards, ms. contents on front board; a little rubbed & worn. 1. VANCOUVER, George. A Narrative or Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world, performed in the years 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795. Printed for J. Lee. 1802. 80pp. Copac records a single copy at the BL with OCLC recording only digital copies. First published in 1798 in three volumes. 2. LACKINGTON, James. Remarkable Memoirs of the celebrated James Lackington, Esq. Late bookseller in Chiswell-Street. Printed for T. Hughes. 3pp ads (trimmed close to fore-edge). 1806. 36pp, engraved front. port. Although Lackington's memoirs were much reprinted - Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James Lackington - was first published in 1791, this title is unrecorded on both Copac and OCLC. The text is reprinted with permission from Granger's Wonderful Museum which is advertised, with a woodcut illustration, on page 4. 3. CLARKE, Adam. A Dissertation on the Use and Abuse of Tobacco. Wherin the advantages and disadvantages attending the consumption of that entertaining weed, are particularly considered. The second edition. Printed for G. Whitfield. 1798. [iv], 32pp. Trimmed close with occasional partial loss to signature & page number. ESTC T109073. First published in 1797. 4. WHATELEY, William. Directions For Married Persons: describing the duties common to both, and peculiar to each of them. Printed for G. Paramore. 1794. 92, [2]pp. ESTC N964, not in BL, John Rylands only in the UK, Duke and Huntington only in North America. First published in 1619 under the title A Bride-Bush. Or Directions to Married Persons, the second edition was published in Bristol in 1753 followed by three further 18th century editions of which this is the last. All four 18th century editions are recorded in four or fewer locations. 5. DILLON, John. A Short Account of John Dillon, preacher of the gospel. Written by himself. Printed for C. Whitfield. 1796. 11pp. ESTC N22397, not in BL, John Rylands and Duke University only. First published in 1771; all six 18th century editions, of which this is the last, are recorded in four of fewer copies. 6. (NEWLAND, Jane) A Short Account of the Life and Death of Jane Newland of Dublin, who departed this life, October 22, 1789. Fourth edition. Printed for G. Whitfield. 1797. 12pp. ESTC T178586, not in BL, John Rylands and Duke only. An interesting sammelband of rare pamphlets including an edition, recorded in only a single copy, of Captain George Vancouver's Voyage of Discovery. Originally published in three volumes with a suite of plates, this edition abridges Vancouver's narrative of his exploration of North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions to just 80 pages. The five following pamphlets relate in some way to conduct and religion, and Methodism in particular. The unrecorded Lackington edition was published after the publication of his Confessions which retracted his previous criticisms of the Methodist Church and in the same year as he paid for the construction of the Temple Methodist Church in Taunton. Both John Dillon and Jane Newland were fervent Methodists, whilst Clarke's dissertation was written 'in the fear of God, and with the simple desire to be useful to my Brethren'. In A Bride-Bush the Puritan Cleric William Whateley caused great opposition in the church by suggesting that the sin of adultery or wilfull desertion dissolveth the bond and annihilateth the covenant of matrimonie'. This was retracted in the 1623 second edition. In this, and other 18th century editions the text reads: 'This sin [the 'long continuance' of adultery] doth untie the knot of marriage, and annihilate the covenant first made; so that the party wronged, is free from the law of his husband or wife, and at his or her own choice, whether he or she will accept again of such a perfidious yoke-fellow.'.
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