Lost Chapters Recovered from the Early History of American Methodism for sale in Candler, North Carolina

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Book Description: Carlton & Porter (for the author), NY, 1858. By Rev. J. B. Wakeley. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Edition. 8vo. xv, 594pp. Yellow lining documents. Consists of 7 pages of facsimile trademarks of early ministers and stewards of New York, illustrated with 13 full-page steel engravings, with tissue guards, and 7 additional text drawings, black fabric with considerable blind embossing on both covers, gilt lettering and decoration on spine consisting of the Corporate Seal of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York, moderate wear and some plates foxed from tissue guards. This is a tight text block. Engravings consist of a frontis picture of the author, the Treaty between Governor Minuit and the Aborigines for the Sale of Manhattan Island in 1626, a View of New Amsterdam in 1656, a portrait of Captain Thomas Webb of the British Army, who was one of the very first Methodist preachers in America, the Old Methodist Preaching House and Parsonage at John Street, Barratt's Chapel at Kent County, Delaware, a bust picture of Peter Williams, who was the Old Colored Sexton of the John Street Methodist Church, Duane Street Church and Parsonage, Second John Street Church, Third John Street Church, Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Fourth Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church in New York, and Broad Street Methodist Episcopal Church at Newark, New Jersey. Text pictures include a facsimile of Philip Embury's autograph account of his conversion, Embury's own Hired House, the Old Rigging Loft in William Street, Mrs. Barbara Hicks' candlesticks, Love Feast tickets, Wesley Clock, and Summerfield's Cenotaph. Discussion engraving noted initially fly leaf, "To Benj P. Tevis M. D. / From / Hiram Shaw, Jr / June 21, 1859." Tevis was the child of Julia A. Tevis, who started the Science Hill Female Academy, in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky, 1852, and her husband, Reverend John Tevis. Science Hill was amongst the most progressive institutions of female knowing, the curriculum of which included traditional academic subjects over refinement and domestication that were typical of the "completing" schools. Shaw was an effective hat and cap manufacturer in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. He was related by marriage to the Pilcher family who would take control of Science Hill soon before the death of Ms. Tevis. Interesting and historically significant book. Scarce.