Abernethy Drummond (4 results)

8vo, pp. 8, disbound. [ESTC T169911, giving 5 locations in the UK (2 in the National Library of Scotland), and 1 in North America] On the communion service of the Church of England.

Condition: G++. 1st Edition. DISBOUND PAMPHLET of 52 pages. On page 9 the phrase "as the Papists" has been partly inked over. Fairly clean and tight but some browning and spotting.

15pp, [1]. With a half-title. Bound by C. Murton in nineteenth-century half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, corners exposed. Marbled endpapers, occasional early manuscript corrections to text, later ownership inscription of Christopher Wordsworth to recto of front blank fly-leaf. A rare survival of the sole edition of an order of service for the consecration of the final resting place of James Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath (1727-1790), officer of the Austrian army and veteran of the Seven Years' War, by Scottish Episcopal bishop of Edinburgh and Glasgow William Abernethy Drummond (b. before 1720, d. 1809). Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885), travel writer and sometime bishop of Lincoln, son of master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846) and nephew of poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850). ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (Aberdeen, BL, and NLS), and none elsewhere. ESTC T122407. Size: 8vo.

First edition, 36 pp., disbound. Signed at the end: "Your friend and wellwisher." i.e. William Abernethy Drummond. The letter from Aberdeen is John Skinner's "A Letter to Norman Sievwright". Sievwright's "Principles, Political and Religious" was published in 1767. Copies at Aberdeen University, National Library of Scotland, Bodleian Library, University of Wales, Lampeter, General Theological Seminary and St. John's and Trinity Colleges Kinder Library.