[Collection of letterpress and hand-written pages with a Methodist theme.]
[Various dates 1779-1821.]
Some signs of wear.
A collection of broadsides containing news clippings, hymn sheets, and prayers mostly relating to Methodism including an account of missionaries in Ceylon and an advert for prominent methodist and lace maker George Frederick Urling's new shop in Covent Garden. However, the item also includes a petition for a Christmas box from dustmen of a London street, a war song, a clipping describing the arrival of the bones of a mamouth beast found in Mississippi which states 'an animal of such dimensions must have been a contemporary of the almost fabulous Kraken', and an interesting strip of adverts offering rewards for the recapture of runaway slaves in the U.S.
[Ref: 40888] £520.00
Some signs of wear.
A collection of broadsides containing news clippings, hymn sheets, and prayers mostly relating to Methodism including an account of missionaries in Ceylon and an advert for prominent methodist and lace maker George Frederick Urling's new shop in Covent Garden. However, the item also includes a petition for a Christmas box from dustmen of a London street, a war song, a clipping describing the arrival of the bones of a mamouth beast found in Mississippi which states 'an animal of such dimensions must have been a contemporary of the almost fabulous Kraken', and an interesting strip of adverts offering rewards for the recapture of runaway slaves in the U.S.
[Ref: 40888] £520.00