Winans. A Series of Discourses, on Fundamental Religious Subjects (1855)

Winans, William; Summers, Thomas O. [editor]. A Series of Discourses, on Fundamental Religious Subjects; including a Preliminary Discourse on the Divine Revelation of the Holy Scriptures. Nashville, Tenn.: Published by E. Stevenson & F. A. Owen, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1855. First Edition. [10478] Olive cloth, faded with frayed joints, 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches, 2 1/2 x 1 1/4 chew damage to bottom board. Steel-engraved portrait of the author, foxed with offsetting to the title page. Pages run [i]-xiv, 17-589, complete; generally clean with very slight foxing. Good. Hardcover. Seventeen Discourses on fundamental truths, from the veracity of the Bible to the final judgment. William Winans, D.D, (1788-1857), of the Mississippi Conference, b. in Pennsylvania, d. in Mississippi. "He was received into the Western Conference in 1808, and volunteered to go to the southwest section of country and perform pioneer work in the distant and sparsely-settled sections of Mississippi