AN EX-PUGILIST EVANGELISES
To you is the word of salvation sent. Seven addresses to the working men and women of england, delivered at st. martin's hall, london, by richard weaver, a converted collier and ex-pugilist. With a biographical sketch.
Prescott, C[anada] W[est], [Ontario].
Printed at the "Evangelizer" Office, [1860].
First Canadian edition.
8vo.
95pp, [1]. Partially unopened in original publisher's printed salmon pink wrappers. Rubbed, dulled, and stained, loss to backstrip. Title page and terminal leaf dampstained, head of penultimate leaf trimmed.
The second located copy of a Canadian edition of a series of addresses delivered in London by Wesleyan evangelist Richard Weaver (1827-1896).
Weaver, born into an impoverished family in the Shropshire mining village of Asterley, spent his youth as collier. An intemperate and ungodly young man, Weaver was easily tempted by drink and the prospect of a fight. Aged twenty-four, bruised from years engaging in boxing bouts with his fellow miners, Weaver resolved to commit suicide. His hand was stayed upon hearing an ethereal voice calling him to God. Shortly thereafter, determined to mend his ways, Weaver joined the Wesleyan Society at Openshaw, near Manchester. Thereafter he devoted himself to ministry and the propagation of the gospel. He proved an effective preacher and spent the remainder of his life to the salvation of working-class men and women across Britain.
A French translation, published at Toulouse, appeared in 1861.
OCLC records a single copy, at LAC; COPAC records a single copy of an edition without an imprint, presumed to have been printed in London, at BL.
£ 625.00
Antiquates Ref: 29871
Weaver, born into an impoverished family in the Shropshire mining village of Asterley, spent his youth as collier. An intemperate and ungodly young man, Weaver was easily tempted by drink and the prospect of a fight. Aged twenty-four, bruised from years engaging in boxing bouts with his fellow miners, Weaver resolved to commit suicide. His hand was stayed upon hearing an ethereal voice calling him to God. Shortly thereafter, determined to mend his ways, Weaver joined the Wesleyan Society at Openshaw, near Manchester. Thereafter he devoted himself to ministry and the propagation of the gospel. He proved an effective preacher and spent the remainder of his life to the salvation of working-class men and women across Britain.
A French translation, published at Toulouse, appeared in 1861.
OCLC records a single copy, at LAC; COPAC records a single copy of an edition without an imprint, presumed to have been printed in London, at BL.
