Meade, William. COMPANION TO THE FONT AND THE PULPIT. Washington, [D.C.]: J. and G.S. Gideon, Printers, 1846. 12mo. 147 pages. Contemporary red morocco spine and corners over marbled paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering and fillets. 19 x 12 cm. Worn on extremities with slight loss to head of spine; front joint cracked but holding; lacking front flyleaf; endpapers browned. Title and final leaf moderately foxed; scattered light traces of foxing elsewhere; faint offsetting from author's inscription to the title. A good copy.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BY MEADE, unsigned, on the front free endpaper, reading as follows: "Mr and Mrs. C__[?] with the best wishes of the author."
A treatise on baptism. Rev. William Meade (1789-1862), a native of White Post, Virginia, was the third Episcopal Bishop of Virginia (1841-1862) and a leader of the evangelical revival in his state.
"Meade was a refounder of the Episcopal church in Virginia, a leader of the Evangelicals, and helped to found the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge in 1847, which was 'to maintain and set forth the principles and doctrines of the gospel embodied in the Articles, Liturgy and Homilies of the Protestant Episcopal Church' . . . One of the principal means of evangelical revival in Virginia sponsored by Meade was the establishment of 'clerical associations,' which were much like revival meetings. Usually held day and night from Thursday to Sunday, but sometimes for as long as ten days, they differed from a Baptist or Methodist revival primarily by ending with a service of Holy Communion. These associations were a primary evangelistic method to reach the unchurched and to inspire the indifferent." --Donald S. Armentrout in ANB.
American Imprints 46-4555. Haynes12026. Scarce. $150
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BY MEADE, unsigned, on the front free endpaper, reading as follows: "Mr and Mrs. C__[?] with the best wishes of the author."
A treatise on baptism. Rev. William Meade (1789-1862), a native of White Post, Virginia, was the third Episcopal Bishop of Virginia (1841-1862) and a leader of the evangelical revival in his state.
"Meade was a refounder of the Episcopal church in Virginia, a leader of the Evangelicals, and helped to found the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge in 1847, which was 'to maintain and set forth the principles and doctrines of the gospel embodied in the Articles, Liturgy and Homilies of the Protestant Episcopal Church' . . . One of the principal means of evangelical revival in Virginia sponsored by Meade was the establishment of 'clerical associations,' which were much like revival meetings. Usually held day and night from Thursday to Sunday, but sometimes for as long as ten days, they differed from a Baptist or Methodist revival primarily by ending with a service of Holy Communion. These associations were a primary evangelistic method to reach the unchurched and to inspire the indifferent." --Donald S. Armentrout in ANB.
American Imprints 46-4555. Haynes12026. Scarce. $150
