1830-48 Sammelband of Thirteen Religious Pamphlets

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Leather Binding, Signed, Very Scarce

A sammelband of thirteen very scarce religious pamphlets, an intriguing anthology of sermons by various eminent Reverends. Five of the thirteen pamphlets are signed.

'A Sermon Recommending the Establishment, in the Hundred of Gartree, in the County of Leicester, of a Society Auxiliary to the Society in London, For Increasing the Comforts and Bettering the Condition of the Poor', published by J. Hatchard and Sons in London in 1830.

‘Trinity College Commemoration Sermon Preached in the College Chapel, December 15, 1838’, by Reverend William Whewell.

‘On Modern Catholicism’. Signed to the Marquess of Northampton by the author.

‘A Sermon Preached at the Parish Church of Swansea, on Sunday, the 13th August 1848, in Behalf of Swansea National Schools’, by Connop Thirlwall, published by William Spurrell in Carmarthen. Signed by the author to the title page.

‘A Sermon, Preached in Obedience to the Queen’s Letter, in Behalf of the Starving Irish, on Sunday, 31st January, 1847’, by Henry W. Sullivan, published by Rivingtons; Hatchards; Ridgways in London, in 1847. Signed by the author to the title page.

‘A Sermon Preached at the Opening of the New Parish Church of St. James, East Crompton, Lancashire, on St. James’ Day, 1847’, by Joseph Littler, published by D. Evans in Oldham in 1847.

‘A Sermon, Preached in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, Before the University, on Sunday, June 27, 1847’, by Samuel, Lord Bishop of Oxford, published by Francis & John Rivington in London in 1847.

‘A Sermon Preached in Westminster Abbey, on Easter Sunday Evening, April 23, 1848, on the Occasion of the Re-Opening of the Choir, and the Application of the Transepts to the Reception of the Congregation’, by William Buckland, published by John Murray in London in 1848.

‘A Sermon Preached in the Cathedral Church of Worcester, at the Ordination There Held, on Sunday, December 20, 1846’, by the Richard Seymour, published by Francis & John Rivington in 1847. Signed to the Marquess of Northampton by the author.

‘A Charge, to the Clergy of the East Riding, Delivered at the Ordinary Visitation, A. D. 1848’, by Robert Isaac Wilberforce, published by John Murray in London.

‘A Charger, Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter at the Triennial Visitation in June, July, and August, 1848’, by Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter, published by John Murray in London in 1848.

‘Two Sermons, Preached at the Re-Opening of the Parish Church, Wellesbourne, April 13, 1848’, by Richard Seymour and W. D. Furneaux, published by Francis & John Rivington in London 1848. Signed by “one of the authors” to the Marquess of Northampton to the half-title.

‘An Inquiry Whether the Sentence of Death Pronounced at the Fall of Man Included the Whole Animal Creation or Was Restricted to the Human Race’, by W. Buckland, published by John Murray in London in 1839. Signed by the author to the half-title.

The Marquess at this time was Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, a patron of science and the arts.