Published by De L'Imprimerie de N. Mauger, Imprimeur du Roi, Au Bas du Bordage, Guernsey, 1823
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
[4], 192pp. Original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Heavily worn and marked; spine covering perished, boards each hanging by a cord only. Some damp-staining; pen trials to FEP; RFEP torn away. An entirely unrecorded Guernsey-printed selection from the journal of travelling stonemason and pioneer of Yorkshire Methodism John Nelson (1707-1774). Nelson's conversion began after his hearing John Wesley preach at Moorfields in 1739 and famously describes himself as 'like a wandering bird, cast out of the nest' until this moment. The anonymous translator of this edition, produced - one presumes - for the growing French-speaking Methodist readership in Guernsey following the opening of the first Methodist chapel amongst that community in St. Peter Port in 1789, translates that famous phrase as follows: 'mais je fus comme un oiseau errant, chasse de son nid, jusqu'a ce que M. Jean Wesley vint precher son premier sermon a Moorfields'. Unrecorded by OCLC and COPAC. Size: 12mo in 6s.