LABOUR, REST, AND RECREATION by Cumming, The Rev. John - 1854

New York: John Bradburn, Publisher and Bookseller, 1863 Book. Good Only. Hardcover. Exterior wear includes rubbing-type soils on cover, with normal edge wear and chips, and title sticker on spine chipping and fading; foxing on end papers. A collection of lectures trying to guide youth to understanding and embracing the stories written in the Holy Bible, and deterring them from irreligious lifestyles. 271 pages..

Richard Bentley, 1860. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1860. No Edition Remarks. 479 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut and uncut pages. Noticeable foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters, exposing netting and causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Mild splitting to joints. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

United Kingdom: George Routledge. 344 pages. Spine and cover faded and general wear to cover. Cover corners are worn and slightly frayed. Signature on end paper. Evidence of age and use (a few page corners lightly creased and some dust markings etc). Sound hardback. No dust jacket. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistle to the Romans by The Rev. Albert Barnes. Carefully revised by Rev. John Cumming. This is the 1846 edition . Good. Hardcover. 1846.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: John Farquhar Shaw, 1849. First Edition. Full black leather binding with gilt decoration to the edges and gilt titles. Leather bookplate to the inside board with the name "Frances Smallbone" The black leather is clean, but is rubbed to the edges of the spine, with some loss of surface colour here. Inside the book is clean and tidy throughout, with no particular flaws. Cumming was a Scottish minister, part of the Scottish National Church based in Covent Garden. His theology is firmly Protestant. "It is thus that God still acts in history, and that all men are agents, consciously or unconsciously executing his purposes." vi, [ii], 156. pp

Hardback. New.

Lindsay and Blakiston, 1854. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1854. No Edition Remarks. 544 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pen and pencil inscription and markings to front free endpaper and pastedown. Moderate water staining to top edge textblock. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate loss to spine ends. Minor crushing to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.

Boston: Manning & Loring. Collectible - Acceptable. Boston: Manning & Loring, Jan. 1805. 8vo leather. 40pp. Binding copy. Boards and the upper and lower spine lacking. An ink stamp to the top edge of the title page. An otherwise very nice copy! Inquire if you need further information.

Hardback. New.