Journal of the life, travels, and gospel labours, of that faithful servant, and minister of christ, job scott
by SCOTT, Job
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About This Item
[Warrington]: Re-printed for, and Sold by W. Leicester, 1798. [2], x, 281pp, [1]. Contemporary calf, gilt. Heavily rubbed, splitting to joints and spine with loss to head and foot. Ink ownership inscription to FFEP, lightly foxed, overall internally clean and crisp. From the recently dispersed library of Hugh Selbourne, with neat ink-stamps to verso of title and margin of p51. A provincial English printing of this biography of prominent American Quaker minister and quietest, Job Scott (1751-1793), first published in Delaware in 1797. Later interpretations of Scott's atypical doctrinal philosophy would contribute to the 1827 Hicksite-Orthodox split, the first schism within Quakerism. ESTC T76783.. 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
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- Title
- Journal of the life, travels, and gospel labours, of that faithful servant, and minister of christ, job scott
- Author
- SCOTT, Job
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Re-printed for, and Sold by W. Leicester
- Place of Publication
- [Warrington]
- Date Published
- 1798
- Keywords
- Religion
- Size
- 12mo
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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