HELPS TO THE STUDY OF PRESBYTERIANISM, or, an Unsophisticated Exposition of Calvinism, with Hopkinsian Modifications and Policy, with a View to a More Easy Interpretation of the Same. To which is Added a Brief Account of the Life and Travels of the Author.
Knoxville, TN: F. S. Keiskell, 1834. Quarter Leather. Good+ binding. Item #8570
12mo. 299 pp. First edition. In original calf spine with paper over boards expertly renewed with period paper; new pastedown and preliminary blank; final leaf of the contents is supplied in a surprisingly good facsimile. A sophisticated copy, but the conservation was done with great care to the appearance. Spine a bit desiccated but solid; dampstaining to the preliminaries; foxing throughout.
A fairly uncommon book by the Tennessee minister, editor, and eventually, post-bellum governor and U.S. Senator. While more known for his role as a newspaper editor with a bent towards the incendiary and his outspoken stance on the Confederacy, manifest in Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession (1862) and elsewhere, this remains a notable book with several dozen pages of his autobiography and travels. A reasonably early Knoxville imprint. Howes B-882, "aa"; Tennessee Imprints 527, Allen 1113; Smith p. 135-6; Oxford American National Biography.
Price: $150.00