Discourse Preparatory

Henry Stebbing. A Discourse Preparatory to the Religious Observance of the Day of Public Fasting and Humiliation. Appointed by Authority, To be kept On Friday the Sixth of February 1756, On the Occasion of the late Earthquakes Abroad, and particularly at Lisbon. London: E. Owen, 1756. First edition. Octavo (7.625 x 4.875 inches; 195 x 125 mm.). [2]. 30 pages. Contemporary cord binding, lacking boards and a backstrip (text block only); all edges of the text block sprinkled red. Spine slightly leaning; first and last leaves reinforced in the gutter to the adjacent leaves; old stab holes visible; first and last pages lightly soiled. Very good. Two subsequent corrected editions by Owen published the same year; also published the same year as a 24-page Dublin edition, published by G. Faulkner. ETSC T1231. (#10342).