Clarke, Adam; Clarke J. B. B. [editor]. An Account of the Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.A.S., etc., etc.. Written by One who was intimately acquainted with him from his boyhood to the sixtieth year of his age (3 volumes in 1). New-York: B. Waugh and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1837. [11831]
Full brown leather with a red leather spine title label, rubbed and worn with some worming to the bottom joint, yet both joints still strong, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches. 821 pages, some foxing, tight. Each book with its own table of contents. Good. Hardcover.
Written in the third person by Adam Clarke himself. Includes early interviews with the Wesley brothers, examples of Clarke's studies and open-air preaching, and notices of early Wesleyan Methodism.
Adam Clarke (1760-1832), b. Ireland; he was personally approved by John Wesley as a Methodist preacher in 1782, and is the author of the worthy Bible Commentary that bears his name.
