The Life Of David Marks, To the 26th year of his age. Including The Particulars Of His Conversion, Call To The Ministry, And Labours In Itinerant Preaching For Nearly Eleven Years. Written By Himself.

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12mo. pp. 396. engraved frontis. portrait. contemporary tree calf (bit rubbed, browned throughout). First Edition. "The Author, a Free-will Baptist ,first came to Canada as a boy preacher in 1822. From 1827 to 1830, he made yearly trips to the London District of Upper Canada, holding evangelistic meetings in the streets and churches. His journal gives and interesting account of the Baptists in eastern Ontario in pioneer times." (TPL) The work is also an important Mormon item, containing the earliest account of the Book of Mormon and Mormonism from an anti-Mormon perspective, written one year following the book s publication: ".A copy right was secured by Smith in his own name. The book contains about six hundred octavo pages of small print. Five thousand copies were published - and they said the angel told Smith to sell the books at a price which was one dollar and eight cents per copy more than the cost, that they 'might have the temporal profit, as well as the spiritual.'.the style is so insipid, and the work so filled with manifest imposture, that I feel no interest in a further perusal." (pp. 340-41) Sabin 44624. TPL 4952. N° de ref. del artículo elala1825

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