8vo. In six volumes. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, some chipping to spines at head and foot, a trifle cocked. Early inked ownership inscription to FFEP of Vol. I, later ownership inscriptions to first page text of all volumes, scattered spotting.

A revised and extended edition of Wesleyan Methodist minister Thomas Jackson's (1783-1873) standard account of the history of the early years of Methodism, first published in 1865.