Search Results: Religion from Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA)

London: Printed for G. Terry, Bookseller [et al.] . . . Sold also, at Providence Chapel; at Monkwell Street Meeting, every Tuesday Evening; and at Horsleydown, every Thursday Evening 1792. First edition.
Some light foxing and toning; in very good condition.
8vo, recent boards with covered with older white paper stock, 103 pages.
"Maria has labored hard, I believe, almost five years, against my licentious life and doctrines, and without proving one just charge against me of immorality; and, on the other hand, she has not produced one person to bear witness, before the churches, of any one good work--either work of the Law, work of faith, or work of the hands--that ever she performed, but one; and that was cooking the calf's-head, the night that the synod was convened against me, and she threw that into the ashes. . . . It was deemed no less than a miracle that Maria was not drowned in the pottage-pot; but some of the opposite party view it as a bad omen to them, that their councils and their religious… Read More

New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood, 1811. First Wood edition.. Joints somewhat rubbed, a little rubbed along the edges and corners; some scratching to the upper board; text-block a little soiled; a very good copy.. 32mo (1.94 x 1.25 inches), original polished calf, gilt ruled spine, 254 pages. Frontis, illus. Adomeit, Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, A17; Welch 856.1: "American variant 1 of English version 2, no. 855 [Harris, ca. 1806].

New-York: Published by John S. Taylor, Brick Church Chapel, 1837. First edition.
Spine just a trifle sunned; some light rubbing; some light foxing throughout; a very good copy.
8vo (7.75 x 4.88 inches), original blind-stamped ribbon-embossed blue cloth, gilt lettering, 348, 8 pages.
"Is not the age of Infidelity approaching, along with the time of terrible judgments?"
A detailed argument against various "scoffers," along with an account of Nelson's own conversion, published shortly after he had arrived in Quincy as an agent for the American Antislavery Society to set up his "Abolitionist Factory" at the Mission Institute outside of Quincy (and just across the Mississippi from slave-holding Missouri).
American Imprints 45758.

Philadelphia: Published by Abel C. Thomas, John Richards, Printer, 1835. First edition.. Spine head and corners just a trifle frayed; spine and board edges sunning; some light general soiling; a very good copy.. 12mo (7.13 x 4.38 inches), original watered rose cloth, printed paper spine label, 180 pages. Eddy, Universalism in America, 812; American Imprints 30185.

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. Spine and board edges sunned and faded; a trifle worn, some light foxing; a very good copy. 12mo (7.38 x 5 inches), original gilt pictorial blind-stamped lilac cloth, gilt lettering, 304 pages. Frontispiece view of the new mission building. Women's mission work in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan, with some background on the brutal conditions of life there for the poor. The Old Brewery of the title had long been a notorious tenement and headquarters for gangs (cf. Scorsese); the Methodist mission erected a new building on the site in 1850 and began their work in the area to provide jobs, schooling, and medical care in addition to their preaching. This account, from several women who give only their initials, includes the expected tales of conversion--but also provides some glimpse of the lives of urban poor blacks and Irish immigrants, including a disapproving account of an Irish wake: "I succeeded at last, much to my joy, in breaking up… Read More

Boston: Printed by Thomas Badger, Jun., 1819. First edition. Free endpapers excised; rubbed, soiled, front joint cracking but holding; a good, sound copy only. 8vo (8.88 x 5.5 inches), early half calf, blue boards, 49, [1] pages. Primarily printed music. A work from early in the career of Wainwright (1792-1854), the eventual provisional Episcopal Bishop of New York (he was then at his first post at Christ Church in Hartford, shortly to be moved to New York) and a moderately early compilation of American sacred music for Episcopal use. Wainwight's preface acknowledges the help of Dr. G. K. Jackson for his work with the harmonies, as well as having "furnished the work with several of his own valuable compositions." The magisterial Boston organist Jackson (1745-1822) had himself published in 1816 a collection, A choice collection of chants for four voices, with a Gloria Patri & Sanctu. Small ownership stamp of musicologist Irving Lowens at the foot of the copyright page. Lacks endpapers. Later woodcut… Read More

Pittsburgh: Published by R. Patterson & Lambdin, 1818. An early Pittsburgh edition and a later American edition of this 18th century account of a Scottish surgeon's meditations aboard a British man of war. Small flaw in one leaf, with loss of several letters. Some chipping and cracking at the head of the spine, with some wear to the label and corners; foxing; a very good copy. 12mo, contemporary tree calf, red leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 254, [8] pages. This appears to be an early publication from the combined efforts of Patterson and Lambdin (the partnership dissolved in bankruptcy in 1823); Patterson had been publishing in Pittsburgh since 1810 (indeed, publishing a 266-page edition of the Meikle in 1815), and Lambdin had been publishing in Pittsburgh since 1817. After joining forces in 1818, they appear to have sunk considerable energy into reprinting Meikle, publishing separately that year five of his titles as well as a four volume edition of his works. In any event, Patterson's… Read More