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Nottingham: Printed and Sold by the Author, 1856.. 1st edition. Autobiography which tells of the author's temptations and eventual conversion to Christianity. 15cms x 9.5cms x 1cms. Pp.171. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to spine slightly rubbed, wear to top and tail of spine and bumps to corners. Scarce. G+.

London: Charles Gilpin, 5, Bishopsgate Street, 1846 .. 1st edition. Original publisher's cloth binding. [2pp.]/pp.v./[1p.]/pp.124 . Brown cloth binding with simple blind stamp decoration. Edges rubbed and bumped . Gilt title to spine. Hinges carefully strengthened. Library label to verso of the front board: "Woodbridge Monthly Meeting Library." Facsimile folded letter as frontispiece. Clean text throughout. VG.… Read more about this item

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege /Oxford University Press, 1954.. The earliest known autobiography of a English person and one of the most engaging of Christian Lives". 15cms x 10cms x 2cms. Pp xxx/349, owner's name to front free endpaper, endpapers toned. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2006.. Michael Yelton was afforded unrestricted access to the archives iof the Shrine to produce thus definitive work which sets out previously unpublished material on Hope Patten's family and background and explores many of the myths which he created about himself. It records the struggles he had - personal and financial - to establish his dream… Read more about this item

Leominster: Gracewing, 1992.. 1st edition. "This biography examines fully his career at Lincoln Theological College, Christ Church Oxford and Kings College London. In addition the authior discusses the genesis of his many books, his discussions with Rome and the criticism by liberals of his traditional faith and teaching." Pp.x/392, 7 black and white photo illustrations.Green cloth, dustwrapper has… Read more about this item

Privately published, 1985.. Autobiography. Pp.63, inscribed by the author to contents page. Turquoise laminated stiff card covers, minor creasing to spine edge. VG.

London: SPCK, 1972.. 1st edition. Biographical portrait of Mother Maribel, Mother General of the Wantage Sisters. Pp.x/93, 14 black & white photo illustrations + occasional line drawings by the author, owner's name to front free endpaper. Paperback, slightly rubbed with a few spots. G+

London: Christian Action, 1991.. 1st edition. "The eccentric Fellow of Trinity, F.A.Simpson, was a legend in Cambridge from the end of the First World War until his death in 1974. Eric James...has gathered the memories, anecdotes and assessments of Simpson's friends, but has not made Simpson simply a figure of fun: he has tried to penetrate to the heart… Read more about this item

London: Epworth Press, 1977.. 1st edition. "This is the story of Joseph Wellington Hunkin, and of the Church and society which he served in the first half of the twentieth century....One of the outstanding padres of the first world war, he became succesively Cambridge don, and archdeacon and rector of a grea parish [Truro]. At the end of his… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975.. 1st edition. Autobiography of the New Zealnd born former Dean of St Paul's. Pp.224, many black & white illustrations, signed by the author to title page. Black boards, dustwrapper has minor edge wear. VG/VG.

London: `Cassell, 1960.. 1st edition. Biography of the author, preacher and Minister of the City Temple - the cathedral of the Free Churches. Pp.120, 4 line drawing illustrations, light spotting to closed page edges. Maroon cloth, dustwrapper spotted to rear with edge wear and small chipped losses to top edge. G+/G+.

Newport Pagnell: A.C.Todd (Printers), 1983.. A short account of the Olney Hymns writer and curate, (collaborator with William Cowper), John Newton. Pp.22, 7 black & white illustrations by Reg Perkins. Cream stiff card covers. VG.

London: J.Gadsby, George Yard, Bouverie Street, 1867.. Memoir of William Tiptaft, the founder of the Abbey Baptist Church, Abingdon. 19cms x 11cms. Pp.144, foxing to title page and final page. Purple blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to front, spine and edges sunned. G+.** "In 1829, he became vicar of Sutton Courtenay. It was a time of great turmoil… Read more about this item

Westminster: The Faith Press, 1960.. 1st edition. Part One contains a life of St Willibrord (A.D. 658-739) and Part Two is a history of the St Willibrord Society (the first fifty years). Pp.80. Paperback. VG.** "Willibrord was an Anglo-Saxon missionary and saint, known as the "Apostle to the Frisians" in the modern Netherlands. He became the first bishop… Read more about this item

London: John Mason, 1858.. Third edition. Biography of Dr Adam Clarke, a British Methodist theologian who served three times as President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference. A biblical scholar, he published an influential Bible commentary among other works. Pp.viii/439/4(publisher's catalogue), Engraved portrait frontispiece, ownership details to front free endpaper, cracking to front and rear inner hinges (but holding),… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1993.. This is the definitive biography of the "prince of preachers", Charles Haddon Spurgeon. In it, the author shares never-before-told stories and little known facts about the legendary Baptist preacher who dominated his own day - and whose influence still permeates the Christian landscape today." Pp.895, gift message to front free endpaper. Blue… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, 1896.. 2nd ed. "The transcript of Andrewes's Private Devotions contained in this volume was made with the current(1895) Greek and Latin printed texts and with the translations of Drake, Stanhope, Hall, Newman, Neale, and Venables, as well as that of a private hand, before the transcriber." Top edge gilt. Pp.8/232/16(ads), toning to endpapers,… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co., 1896.. 1st edition. With two chapters appreciative of Sir F. Ouseley as a musician by G.R.Sinclair. Biography of the English composer, organist, musicologist and priest. Pp.xii/278, black & white portrait frontispiece + 4 futher plates, spotting to endpapers, illustrated owner's bookplate + a few small ink notations to front free endpaper. Dark green cloth,… Read more about this item

London: Mowbray, 1982.. Gives an unforgettable picture of The Brethren; also a tender and loving one of people whom she respected but with whom she found she could not stay. The portraits of her own parents, and especially of her father, are ones which few readers will easily forget". Pp.196. Paperback, some creasing to front. G+.

London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson Ltd, nd. (c.1922).. 1st edition. Biography of Benjamin Philpot, MA (b Laxfield, Suffolk) (1790 �1889) was Archdeacon of Man (1832-1839). Pp.xvi/293, 6 black & white illustrations + 2 colour portrait miniatures. Red cloth, gilt title to front and spine, minor wear to top and taai and bumps to corner tips.Scarce. VG.