12mo. [2], 113pp, [1]. Original publisher's burgundy cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Scattered spotting.

Eight sermons on the canticles by Dr Friedrich Krummacher, (1796-1868), German Reformed clergyman. Krummacher's preaching earned him international renown, with his sermons on the prophet Elijah inspiring Felix Mendelssohn to write his 1846 choral work Elijah (oratorio).