Item #3353 The Legend of the Velvet Cushion, In a Series of Letters to My Brother Jonathan, Who lives in the Country By Jeremiah Ringletub. J. W. Cunningham, John William Cunningham.
The Legend of the Velvet Cushion, In a Series of Letters to My Brother Jonathan, Who lives in the Country By Jeremiah Ringletub
The Legend of the Velvet Cushion, In a Series of Letters to My Brother Jonathan, Who lives in the Country By Jeremiah Ringletub
The Legend of the Velvet Cushion, In a Series of Letters to My Brother Jonathan, Who lives in the Country By Jeremiah Ringletub
The Legend of the Velvet Cushion, In a Series of Letters to My Brother Jonathan, Who lives in the Country By Jeremiah Ringletub
The Legend of the Velvet Cushion, In a Series of Letters to My Brother Jonathan, Who lives in the Country By Jeremiah Ringletub

The Legend of the Velvet Cushion, In a Series of Letters to My Brother Jonathan, Who lives in the Country By Jeremiah Ringletub

London: 1815. Later Printing. Hardcover. An about Very Good copy of this later later printing of this work bound in full calf with each board decorated elegantly in gilt with the spine lettered and decorated in gilt. The volume shows general wear, one section of the early pages is sprung but is holding well, the marbled edges of the closed page block are darkened, and the upper joint and hinge to each board is cracked open. The front pastedown hosts a small bookseller label as well as the remnants of a larger label earlier removed. The title page states: "Printed by J. Dennett, Leather Lane, Holburn; / FOR WILLIAMS AND SON, STATIONERS' COURT, LUDGATE STREET: // BURTON AND BRIGGS, LEADENHALL STREET; AND // T. HAMILTON, PATERNOSTER ROAD". John William Cunningham was an evangelical clergyman of The Church of England, a writer, and was the editor of the Christian Observer from 1850 to 1858. "The Velvet Cushion", first published in 1814, was a fictional memoir about the Church of England as told by a vicarage cushion and gave an account of the parties in the church of England since the English Reformation from the evangelical point of view. The book was so successful it was promptly reprinted, with the tenth edition being printed in 1816. While the book states the author as Jeremiah Ringletub, the work was written by John William Cunningham, an evangelical clergyman of the Church of England. With some frequency, the book is wrongly attributed to John Styles, whose name was written in pencil on the title page by a former seller. However, Styles was an English Congregational minister and animal rights writer who disliked Cunningham's work and who, in response, in 1815 published his own satirical response titled "A New Covering to the Velvet Cushion". A Very Good copy of this work which is somewhat uncommon to the market. About Very Good. Item #3353

Price: $80.00

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