Wilson, Daniel; Dorr, Benjamin [editor]. An Address to Young Persons about to be Confirmed. Philadelphia: R. S. H. George, 1844. Second Edition. [10446]
Red cloth with blindstamped pattern, gilt title & wreath to front, small 11 x 7 cm (4 3/8 x 2 7/8 inches), 105, [1] clean pp., tight. Dime-sized dark spot on front cover. Very good. Hardcover.
An American unaltered reprint of the text seventeenth London edition, with a few marginal notes added for clarification. This has a copyright date of 1842 and today this "Second Edition" would be called a second printing.
Daniel Wilson (1778-1858), b. London, England; d. Calcutta, British India. Wilson was the Anglican Bishop of Calcutta from 1832 to 1858. An evangelical, he had been influence by John Newton to enter the ministry.
"Bishop Wilson was a man of studious habits and solid learning, with little respect for forms or ceremonies, compared with inward experience; destitute of the elegant culture and graceful address of Heber, one of his most distinguished predecessors, he was stern in purpose and explicit in speech. His energy in the discharge of duty was almost without parallel...Free from worldliness, from every trace of self-indulgence, from all duplicity and guile, he found his highest glory in the progress of the faith; and in his zeal, courage, firmness, and self-devotion, must be regarded as a model of the missionary bishop." - M'Clintock and Strong.
