Wilkinson, W. M. The Revival in its Physical, Psychical, and Religious Aspects. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. Second Edition. [3775]
Inscribed on the tp, "Mary Smith, with the Authors affectionate remembrance of 45 years ago. 1864."
Purple cloth stamped in blind & gilt, spine and board edges sunned, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, recent former owner's signature on the fep, small Latin bookplate as old as the book, (iv.), 299 clean pp., edge-worn, tight. Good. Hardcover.
No. 5767 in Roberts, Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. "An analysis of the 1859 Ulster revival from the standpoint of a spiritualist." (Note to the first edition).
William Martin Wilkinson (1814-1897), an English Swedenborgian; editor of the Spiritual Magazine and secretary of the London Spiritualist Union.
This book "is an attempt to analyze [revivals], as phenomena of the mind, apart from the religious views of the converts; and thus to conciliate both philosophy and religion, and to recognise in Revivals possibilities of the highest import for humanity, when they shall be better understood." - Notice to the Second Edition.
