8vo. 10 parts bound as one, as issued. [4], 8, 11, [1], 16, 7, [1], 16, 16, 12, 15, [1], 17, [1], 10pp, [2]. Each part with an individual title page. With a photographic frontispiece, including facsimile signature of the author. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Rubbed and marked, chipping to head and foot of spine, boards and spine slightly dulled. Occasional very light spotting and browning.

The first edition of a collection of short hymns and addresses, bound together as issued, by British preacher and hymnstress Geraldine Dening (1841-1872), acclaimed more significantly under her maiden name, Geraldine Hooper. A well-known preacher in the 1860s, with a style said to resemble Scottish Evangelical Jessie Macfarlane (1843-1871), her voice was known to draw crowds of thousands; a witness to her Luton meetings noted that despite her musical talents and national renown, 'The chief impression, however, which she created was that she was animated simply by one desire, - to do good.'