The Lives of Ebenezer Erskine, William Wilson and Thomas Gillespie, Fathers of the United Presbyterian Church

First edition, first printing. 16, 306pp. tissue-guarded frontispiece, occasional further illustrations. Issued to subscriber's only. In decorated cloth-covered boards with gilt motif and lettering. Coloured endpapers. 12mo. Cloth worn, rubbed and substantially rounded at corners and spine ends, cloth a little cracked along spine joints. Text block edges darkened. Note from publisher's pasted into endpapers, explaining the delay in publication (dated 1849). Some mild spotting throughout, more heavily on tissue-guard and title page. Binding fragile. Biographies of three of the founding fathers of the United Presbyterian Church.