West, Elisabeth. Memoirs, or Spiritual Exercises of Elisabeth West: Written by her own hand; Corrected by an American Gentleman. Exeter: Printed by C. Norris, 1817. First American, from the last Edinburgh Edition. [9987]
Full calf over wooden boards, joints fine, some edge-wear, "West's Memoirs" in gilt on the black calf title label. 12.5 x 7 cm (5 x 3 inches), portrait of West as frontispiece, bottom margin of which is torn with loss under her name. 282 pp. + 5 pp. subscriber's list. Very good.
Shaw & Shoemaker 42872.
Elisabeth West (1672-1735), b. Edinburgh. She was the wife of Mr. Brie, minister of Salim, Fifeshire. The record begins in 1694 and ends in 1709. Over the course of her memoir she becomes a strong advocate for Cameroniansim - the Covenanters - and in the final pages she writes of the impassable void between presbytery and prelacy, referencing John Knox, Alexander Shields, and quotes Samuel Rutherford. "A pious lady, the wife of a Scotch clergyman." - M'Clintock & Strong.
