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Full Leather. Condition: VG. None. First Edition. Full brown leather with gilt decoration to spine, gilt bordering on boards, decorated edges and blind-tooled dentelles; marbled endpapers, upper, lower and fore-edges. Coat-of-Arms bookplate of Edward Francis Colston (owner of Roundway Park, Wiltshire when Rev. Elliott was prebendary at nearby Heytesbury) on front pastedown. First book publication (?) of a leading Victorian evangelical, whose historicist interpretation of prophecy has been hugely influential on apocalyptic thinking over the past 150 years. His massive 4-volume escatological omnibus HORAE APOCALYPTICAE (1844) remains a standard work on the subject. This early book of sermons was self-published and is rare, only one institutional holding listed on WorldCat at Vanderbilt University. …