8vo. xix, [1], 421pp, [3]. With a terminal advertisement leaf. Contemporary tree-calf, black morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Rubbed, slight splitting to upper joint. Book-label of Henry Birkbeck, Jun. to FEP, very small marginal hole to lower corner of leaf X2, foxed.

The devotional memoirs of Quaker John Rutty (1698-1775). First published in two volumes in 1776, the journal reveals the spiritual trials and tribulations endured by Rutty, a respected practicing physician and prominent member of the Society of Friends in eighteenth-century Dublin. The work, comprised of brief daily entries ranging from September 1753 to December 1774, was intended by Rutty to promote piety and virtue; however his unrelenting self-admonishment regarding perceived faults of character led only to mockery and satirical lambasting - principally ridicule by Samuel Johnson.