Mines. A Presbyterian Clergyman Looking for the Church; By One of Three Hundred

[Mines, Rev. Flavel S.]. A Presbyterian Clergyman Looking for the Church; By One of Three Hundred. New-York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1849. First Edition. [6980] Brown printed wrapper, loss of paper to spine with front nearly detached, 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, 177 clean pp., 14 pp. publisher's adverts. Fair. Paperback. This first edition was published anonymously; later ones identify the author. An interesting early printing of a work that was later expanded to 580 pages. The publisher says that the demand for this was so great that he began to issue it in parts, as it came from the writer's pen.  “Born and nurtured in the bosom of Presbyterianism, graduated at her most honoured seat of learning in America, himself a Presbyterian clergyman of no mean reputation; the writer of the following pages came in due time, by the blessing of God, to see the errors of that system, and to look earnestly for the Church most clearly identified by doctrine and usage with that bu