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An Epistle to The Inhabitants of South-Carolina; Containing Sundry Observations Proper to be Consider'd by Every Professor of Christianity in General
Hume, Sophia · London
- Author
- Hume, Sophia
- Date
- 1754
- Place
- London
- Publisher
- Luke Hinde
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(4.5" x 7.75") Full brown calf, gilt rule framing boards. Rebacked spine with five gilt rule bordered raised bands, gilt author/title to gilt rule framed red leather in second compartment, gilt rule to head and foot. Covers scuffed, mostly to edges, rubbed in spots, and stained. Endpapers renewed, old initial endpaper with prior owners' signatures neatly in old ink and pencil now tipped in and with professional paper repair. Darker offsetting from covers to first and last few page edges (see pic), foxing throughout the 116 pages, none egregious. Two pages of bookseller ads at the end.
- Format
- First and only edition of a Jeremiad by firebrand Quaker preacher Sophia Hume. Sophia was the granddaughter of the famous Quaker missionary Mary Fisher, who was one of the first Quakers to visit the Puritan colonies in North America. Raised Anglican in Charleston, South Carolina, Sophia move to England and re-converted to Quakerism after her husband's death and her own health crisis, which she came to believe had been a warning from God about her decadent lifestyle. The present work invokes a destructive hurricane that had struck her former home state in September 1752, suggesting that it was a “Mark of his Displeasure against your Transgressions." This is Hume's second published work, and much rare in commerce than her first, the much-reprinted Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina.
- Category
- Religion & Theology
- Record
- S.I.7652
An Epistle to The Inhabitants of South-Carolina; Containing Sundry Observations Proper to be Consider'd by Every Professor of Christianity in General 8vo.(4.5" x 7.75") 1754. London: Luke Hinde. Full brown calf, gilt rule framing boards. Rebacked spine with five gilt rule bordered raised bands, gilt author/title to gilt rule framed red leather in second compartment, gilt rule to head and foot. Covers scuffed, mostly to edges, rubbed in spots, and stained. Endpapers renewed, old initial endpaper with prior owners' signatures neatly in old ink and pencil now tipped in and with professional paper repair. Darker offsetting from covers to first and last few page edges (see pic), foxing throughout the 116 pages, none egregious. Two pages of bookseller ads at the end. First and only edition of a Jeremiad by firebrand Quaker preacher Sophia Hume. Sophia was the granddaughter of the famous Quaker missionary Mary Fisher, who was one of the first Quakers to visit the Puritan colonies in North America. Raised Anglican in Charleston, South Carolina, Sophia move to England and re-converted to Quakerism after her husband's death and her own health crisis, which she came to believe had been a warning from God about her decadent lifestyle. The present work invokes a destructive hurricane that had struck her former home state in September 1752, suggesting that it was a “Mark of his Displeasure against your Transgressions." This is Hume's second published work, and much more rare in commerce than her first, the much-reprinted Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina.
Condition
Good
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