A NEW MANUAL OF PRIVATE DEVOTIONS. IN THREE PARTS.
Charleston, (S.C.): Printed and Sold at J. Hoff's Wholesale and Retail Book-Store, 1810. 428, [4] pp. Lacking the front free endpaper, foxed lightly to moderately. Bound in original sheep with gilt spine rules and gilt-lettered spine title on black morocco. Good+.
Originally published in London, this is the first American edition. The last three pages lists more than one hundred Subscribers, most of them women [from some of South Carolina's first families: Gadsden, Huger, Legare, Lowndes, Pinckney], plus a few male ministers [including John Witherspoon]. The Manual is divided into three parts: Prayers for Families and Private Persons; "Containing Offices. I. Of Humiliation. II. For the Sick. III. For Women with Child"; and "An Office for the Holy Communion.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. AI 20878 [4]. OCLC 228693576 [6], 24727611 [2] as of June 2017. Not in Turnbull. Item #33874
Price: $350.00