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MacDonald, George, UNSPOKEN SERMONS
(London: Alexander Strahan, 1867 [1866]). First edition, 18 x
12.5cm (8vo), in publisher's dark violet sand-grain cloth w/blind
ruling to covers & gilt ruling & title to spine, a.e.
untrimmed, russett ep.s w/binder's ticket (Virtue & Co.) to rear
pastedown, [i-viii], [1] 2-245 [246-48] pp. w/titlepage printed in
black & red. Printed by Ballantyne & Co.,
Edinburgh. Inscribed by MacDonald to recto of half-title: "Mrs.
M.S.G. Nichols with the author's kind regards" (below which is inscr.
in another hand: "To G.E. Harris"). Binding Very Good
(extremities sl. rubbed, & rear cover cloth moderately bubbled);
contents Fine. Shaberman 29. (Inv. #740) C$1,400 This is the 1st of 3 vols. (the others were publ. in 1885 & 1889) of MacDonald's collected sermons, most of which were based on New Testament texts. The recipient of this presentation copy, Mary Sergeant Gove Nichols (1810-1884), was the wife of Thomas Low Nichols & author of The Clothes Question Considered in its Relations to Beauty, Comfort, and Health (London: Privately printed, 1878). Mary & her husband moved to England in 1861. Home Page |