METHODIST from Chilton Books

Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013.. 2nd edition. Contents include: 1.Methodism and the Christian Heritage in England; 2.The Rise of Methodism (1725-39); 3.The Revival Begins (1739-44); 4.Consolidation of the Movement (1744-58); 5.The Maturing of Methodism (1758-75); 6.Tensions and Transitions (1775-91). Epilogue: Methodism after Wesley; The Wesleyan Heritage. 22.8cms x 15cms x 2.8cms. Pp.xvi/390, map plus many black & white illustrations.… Read more about this item

London: Charles H.Kelly, 1895.. Enlarged and Adopted to the Revised Catechisms. Pp.xvi/398/2(publisher's catalogue), cracking to inner hinges but holding. Brown cloth, gilt decorated title to front and spine, slightly rubbed to top and tail of spine. G+.

London: The Epworth Press, 1927.. 1st edition. With Family Portraits, Historic Scenes and Additional Portraits of John Wesley. Companion volume to "Sayings and Portraits of John Wesley". Pp.267, sayings for every day of the year followed by further selections and many black & white portraits and illustrations of the Wesley family and the poet and his circle… Read more about this item

London: The Religious Tract Society, nd. (c.1889?).. It was the voice of Whitefield which was the chief agent in starting that religious movement which grew to be almost a second Reformation in England. He soon was joined by others in the same grand cause, the Wesleys pre-eminent among them, but Whitefield was as much the representative man of the… Read more about this item

London: Joseph Toulson, 1889.. 1st edition. A history of Primitive Methodism in the Yorkshire Wolds at the beginning of the nineteenth century, written with much detail about individual villages and including some dialect language. "It stirred the people as they had never been stirred before. Hamlets and villages, where life had run the even tenor of its way,… Read more about this item

London: C.H.Kelly, 1896.. A Bibliography Containing an Exact Account of all the Publications Issued by the Brothers Wesley, Arranged in Chronological Order, with a List of the Early Editions, and Descriptive and Illustrative Notes. pP.291, brown floral endpapers, a few minor spots to preliminaries, cracking to inner hinges but still holding. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, corners… Read more about this item

London: Robert Culley, 1903.. Recitations written for children and young people to recite at Methodist Missionary meetings. Pp.128/16(ads), green patterned endpapers, occasional minor spotting. Brown decorated cloth, gilt title to front. Scarce. G+.

Privately published, 1996.. written as part of a Summer Schools project sponsored by the Methodist South East District. It presents a view of the Methodist Church in regard to its practice and organisation, its social thrust and its place in world Methodism....The author...is a scientist and a Methodist local preacher." Pp.130. Ring binding, card covers. VG.

New York: Vantage Press, 1960.. 1st ed. "This probling, far-reaching book poses - and answers - a fascinating question: Why did one of the towering religious thinkers of the world take thirteen years to discover for himself a simple, primary, and plain part of the Gospel?" Pp.439. Maroon cloth, d/w rubbed. VG/G+.

London: Epworth Press. 1937.. Pp 40. P/b, slight creasing and scuffing to spine. G+.

1988.. Looks at some of the physical traces that our predecessors have left behind them, but the underlying link is not physical, but spiritual. We are united to John Wesley and those who followed him not because we worship as they did, or think as they thought, but because we seek as they did to follow Christ". Pp 32,… Read more about this item

London: Epworth Press, 1967.. Rep. "The aim has been to preserve in a continuous narrative the main facts that illustrate the rise and progress of Methodism as described by John Wesley himself." Pp. 8/433, inscrip. to fep, a few pen and pencil marks to margins and underlinings. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w has… Read more about this item

London: Epworth Press, 1960.. 1st ed. Examines the hostile literary reaction expressed in satire to Methodism and the Methodist leaders, John Wesley and George Whitefield, in the 18th century. Pp. 191, frontis, 4 b/w illustns. Book plate label to verso front board. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w top edge chipped. G+/G.

London:Epworth Press, 1971.. Rep. Pp.12/596, owners name to front free endpaper. Black cloth, dustwrapper edges rubbed with mark to spine. G+/G+.

Lincoln:William Leary,1969.. 1st ed.(Limited ed of 500 copies). Pp.79,b/w frontis. + 13 further b/w plates. Green cloth, gilt title to front. VG.

Peterborough: Methodist Publishing House, nd. (c. 1999).. 1st ed. A biography of the Methodist Local Preachers Mutual Aid Association, 1849-1999. Pp. 15/386, 25 b/w illustns. P/b. Illustd. cover, of the Members of the General Committee, Darlington. VG.

London: The Methodist Church Home Mission Division, 1988.. 1st.ed. "There is a popular myth that Methodist church life is expressed in only one way...It is a myth - a dangerous myth." Pp.96. Pbk. VG.

London: Epworth Press, 1980.. 1st.ed. "The author looks at the way we tackle theology today, assesses the tradition of faith as it has been handed down to the people called Methodist." Pp. 132. Pbk. G+.

London: The Epworth Press,1948.. 1st ed. Pp.10/286, owners names to fep, spotting to endpapers and closed page edges. Blue cloth, spine sunned and marked. G+.

Peterborough: Methodist Publishing House, 1999.. 1st.ed. "Full of human warmth. Written from experience, and provides us with hope - -hope for our lives now and for the future." Pp. 188. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG.