The Christian's Defence Against the Fears of Death: With Seasonable Directions How to Prepare Ourselves to Die Well by Charles Drelincourt (Creator) - 2012-08-01

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Trenton, N. J.: James Oram, 1808. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Gilt lettering on red spine title block on full leather boards. 8vo, 511pp. Name written on first free end paper. Endpapers foxed, very little foxing beyond.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Trenton, NJ: James Oram, 1808. Leather_bound. Very Good. Octavo in full original calf, spine lined in gilt and with gilt lettered red spine label. First American from the twenty-second London edition. Frontispiece engraving "See in what Peace a Christian can die" by Chas Rollinson representing a scene between Joseph Addison at the time of his death and his nephew the Earl of Warwick (Felcone: New Jersey Books 604). 2 blanks, xviii, 19- 508 plus 12 pp. subscriber list, 2 blanks. Firm in its binding but with rubbing to the calf, chipping to the spine label. Staining to the first front blank, the second front blank bears the signature of the owner, Mary Boutton, and the date of "5th mo, 4th, 1809" The rear two blanks bear handwritten genealogical entries for the Boutton family ("Mary, daughter of Joseph and Rachel, born August the 21st at 5 o'clock in the afternoon Anno Domine 1780")and entries from Joseph (1743), Rachel (1748) and the death of the father in 1829 at… Read More

xii +12 +502pp +[2]pp table of contents. The 12pp after the Preface are an abridged version of Daniel Defoes "Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal"
contemporary hand signature and scribbling