The Posthumous Works of the Rev. John Fletcher, Compiled by the Rev. Melville Horne, Curate of Madely

New York: Published by N. Bangs and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1824. Good. Early (second [?]) American edition (first published in 1814 in Baltimore); 7 x 4 1/4; pp. [7], vi-xii, [1], 14-363, [1]; full calf over boards; wear to leather along spine and corners; faint penciled-in note to front board verso; moderate foxing; in about good condition.Compiled by Wesleyan minister and British missionary advocate Melville Horne (1761 - 1841), the book contained many of Rev. John Fletcher's (1729 - 1785) letters - most of them transcribed or copied from the originals. Swiss-born English divine, Fletcher would often be referred to as the “First Theologian of Methodism."