Lot 208
  • 208

Edwards, [Johnathan]

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • 'A faithful narrative of the surprising work of God in the conversion of many hundred souls in Northampton, and the neighbouring towns and villages of the county of Hampshire, in the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England'. Boston: N.E.: Printed & sold by S. Kneeland [and] T. Green, over against the prison in Queen-Street, 1738
  • paper, ink, leather
Two volumes bound in one, 8vo (6 9/16 x 4 in.; 166 x 102mm). Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; foxing, some dampstaining, tear to A3, one or two closed marginal tears; one or two margins shaved. [With]: 'Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal salvation...' Boston: S. Kneeland [and] T. Green, in Queen-Street, over against the prison in Queen-Street, 1738. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; lacking title (A1), small marginal hole to P2, small tear with loss of a few letters to V1, V4, and Z1, a few closed marginal tears foxing, some dampstaining. Bound together in full brown contemporary calf, flat spine with six ruled compartments, second with red morocco lettering piece; lower board detached, upper joints weak, overall rubbed with some loss of calf.

Provenance

Otto Orren Fischer (his bookplate to front pastedown)

Literature

Evans 4239, 4240

Condition

Two volumes bound in one, 8vo (6 9/16 x 4 in.; 166 x 102mm). Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; foxing, some dampstaining, tear to A3, one or two closed marginal tears; one or two margins shaved. [With]: 'Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal salvation...' Boston: S. Kneeland [and] T. Green, in Queen-Street, over against the prison in Queen-Street, 1738. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; lacking title (A1), small marginal hole to P2, small tear with loss of a few letters to V1, V4, and Z1, a few closed marginal tears foxing, some dampstaining. Bound together in full brown contemporary calf, flat spine with six ruled compartments, second with red morocco lettering piece; lower board detached, upper joints weak, overall rubbed with some loss of calf.
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Catalogue Note

Third edition. 'A Faithful Narrative' was written by Edwards in 1737, and described Christian conversion in his congregations in Northampton, Massachusetts, during the Great Awakening. The text was first published in Britain in 1737, and in Boston in 1738. Dutch and German editions would follow, the work brought him international recognition. George Whitefield, for example, was a prominent British minister who voyaged to Northampton after the publication in order to meet with Edwards.