Williams, Ira. Christian Devotion for Conference and Prayer Meetings, and other Religious Worship: Select Hymns, from other Authors. Providence: Amsbury & Lincoln, Printers, 1847. Second Edition. [8463]
Full calf, black calf title label, binding scuffed with cracked rear outer hinge, board attached by cords, 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches. 236 pp., light foxing, tight. "Philip A. Sweet" in pencil at the first page of hymns. Good. Full calf.
Starr, A Baptist Bibliography, W4612. This "second edition" was printed the same year as the first.
Elder Ira Williams, b. ca. 1809, "Late pastor of the Baptist Church in Johnston." A stone cutter who also served as pastor of the Baptist Church in Johnston, who lived in nearby Graniteville, Rhode Island.
With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
