£120
12mo, pp. x, 300, [2] + frontispiece. 19th-century half black calf, purple pebbled cloth boards, spine divided by raised bands, red morocco label, other compartments tooled centrally in blind. Boartds very lightly marked, just a touch of rubbing to extremities. Binder’s ticket of John Carswell, Paisley to front pastedown, errata corrected in ink in an early hand.
A provincially-printed edition of this memorial volume to the Methodist preacher George Whitefield (1714-1770), first published in 1772. Whitefield travelled to North America in 1739 and undertook several preaching tours there in the following decades; his popularity across the pond helps explains the other 1798 printing in New-London, Connecticut, one of three 18th-century American printings. This book though, is profoundly Scottish, being printed by Falkirk printer and bookseller Thomas Johnson, and handsomely bound by Paisley binder John Carswell.
