Emory. The Episcopal Controversy Reviewed & A Defence of "Our Fathers" and of the Original Organization of The Methodist Episcopal Church

Emory, John. The Episcopal Controversy Reviewed bound with A Defence of "Our Fathers" and of the Original Organization of The Methodist Episcopal Church against the Rev. Alexander M'Caine and others; With Historical and Critical Notices of early American Methodism. T. Mason and G. Lane, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, 1838 & 1840. First and Fifth Editions. [7672] Two books bound as one volume. Full tree calf with red leather spine title label in gilt, gilt rules to spine, outer hinges sturdy, some wear to top of spine, surface crazing to lower part of spine. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches, engraved portrait of John Emory with tissue guard, 183 pp. to first book. Separate title page and pagination to second book, 154 pp. This volume has foxing, and is tightly bound with no missing pages. Very good. Leather bound. These two books were counters to the movement of the Protestant Methodists, a group that wished to have laymen included in the decision-making process o