THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH, Two Volumes

London; nd (ca.1900): Edwin Dalton. Hard Cover. Fine. Quarto. TWO VOLUMES. 559, 552pp. Illustrated throughout, handsomely bound by John Dickens and Co. in half black morocco over blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges marbled. A fine set. An early history of the Medodist church with extensive research and the use of early photographs and drawings from churches in Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. The author dates the church's origin back to 1811.