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A sermon preached at the parish church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe and St. Anne, Blackfriars, on Tuesday in Whitsun week, June 4, 1811, before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, instituted by members of the Established Church, being their eleventh anniversary
by Horne, Melville
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About This Item
London: Printed by Kammerer, Printers, for Farrand, Hopkins, 1811. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Scarce in the trade, saddle-stitched in octavo softcover format, with 29 pp., an apparent First Edition, an important item regarding the issues of colonization, Christianity, slavery, and Christian missions there. Author was the Rev. Melville Horne, Late Chaplain to the Colony of Sierra Leone. Mildly soiled and foxed throughout, but clean and unmarked of interior. Penultimate page has a very tight margin.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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- Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 357126
- Title
- A sermon preached at the parish church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe and St. Anne, Blackfriars, on Tuesday in Whitsun week, June 4, 1811, before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, instituted by members of the Established Church, being their eleventh anniversary
- Author
- Horne, Melville
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Printed by Kammerer, Printers, for Farrand, Hopkins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1811
- Size
- 12mo 7" - 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sierra Leone Christianity Colonization British colonies Reverend Melville Horne
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana/Regional Interest;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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