Methodism 18th century works comprising: Wesley, John. A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists. London: J. Paramore, 1780. First edition, 12mo (16.2 x 9.4cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt fleurons to spine, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, head of spine chipped [ESTC T28513]; Idem. Sermons on Several Occasions: in Three Volumes. Bristol: printed by William Pine, c.1770. Second edition, volume 3 only, 12mo (16.8 x 9.8cm), contemporary calf, half-title, worn, contemporary bookplate and annotations to front free endpaper, [ESTC N37142 for volume 3 only, 2 copies in libraries world-wide; ESTC lists volume 1 separately and contains no record of volume 2]; Idem. A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or a Compendium of Natural Philosophy. In Two Volumes. Bristol: William Pine, 1763. First edition, volume 2 only, 12mo (16.2 x 9.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, covers detached, errata leaf, two lines of contemporary annotations on slip mounted to front free endpaper ('True cause of gravity & of all motion - 81.19. Ligthening hurts not a person when wet. 114', ascribed in a pencilled note to John Wesley [ESTC T16609: 7 copies in UK libraries]; Wesley, Charles. Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. London: by G. Paramore, and sold by G. Whitfield, 1794-6. Third edition, 2 volumes, 12mo (17.2 x 10cm), contemporary sheep, 350, 360 pp., rubbed, front covers detached, volume 2 lacking spine-label, slightly browned, and with ink-stamps of the Allan Library (i.e. Thomas Robinson Allan, 1799-1886, barrister and Methodist) to title-page and final page, related presentation plate to front pastedown [ESTC T53201]; Wesley, John & Charles. Hymns and Sacred Poems. Bristol: Felix Farley, 1743. Fourth edition, 12mo (16.4 x 9.6cm), disbound, lacking leaf 2C2 and the 2 advertisement leaves at rear, occasional soiling, last few leaves chipped [ESTC N17359: 6 copies in UK libraries]; Cennick, John. Sacred Hymns for the Use of Religious Societies. Generally compos'd in Dialogues. Part II. Bristol: Felix Farley, 1743. First edition, small square 8vo in 4s (12.8 x 8.6cm), old half calf, rubbed, front joint cracked, final leaf repaired [ESTC T73575]; [Wesleyan Methodist Church]. Minutes of Several Conversations, between the Rev. John Wesley, A. M. and the Preachers in Connection with him. Containing the Form of Discipline established among the Preachers and People in the Methodist Societies. London: for G. Whitfield, 1779 [1797]. 12mo, 19th-century half calf, lacking front cover, first few leaves detached [ESTC T17943], bound with 4 others similar (Minutes of Several Conversations at the Sixty-Seventh [Sixty-Eighth ... Sixty-Ninth ... Seventieth] Annual Conference ... 1810-13); Purdy, Victory, 'the Kingswood Collier'. Poetical Miscellanies. Bristol: John Wansbrough, 1825. First edition, 8vo, original roan-backed boards, engraved frontispiece (manuscript facsimile), spine cracked, front cover detached, with approx. 25 pp. manuscript notes in envelope annotated 'Autograph M. S. of Victory Purdy', comprising hymns and notes on the Wesleyan conference, 1744; together with 3 other books (not collated, not Methodism-related including Robert Traill, Eleven Sermons, 1778, lacking cover, and Histoire entiere et veritable du procez de Charles Stuart, roy d'Angleterre, London: J. G., 1650, front cover detached), and ephemera including 6 autograph letters from Wesleyan ministers, manuscript note in envelope annotated 'J Wesley's autograph', 17 Wesleyan Methodist Society quarterly tickets, and manuscript will and testament of Samuel Williams, coalminer, of Oldland, Gloucestershire (12 volumes and 1 folder)

Note: A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists is notably rare, no other copies traced in action records.