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First edition (per matching dates upon title and copyright pages). i-vi, 1-176 pages. Hardcover; H 19cm x L 12cm. Original dark brown cloth rubbed, stains to front board and spine, large but light discoloration to rear board, spine head bumped with short tears at top of joints, 3cm loss at spine heel with some gouging into the quires, light abrasion along board edges with corners bumped and nicked. Soiling and foxing to endpapers; pencil initials on front pastedown; faint moisture stains to bottom corners of initial leaves; a few page corners creased; occasionally mild foxing on interior leaves. Reverend Jackson was evidently a minister in Winchester, Virginia at the time the book was published for his Preface is dated from that small town in the Blue Ridge mountains. OCLC attributes authorship to William Myers Jackson who died in 1855. This date corresponds to the death of a Reverend William Jackson who served as the minister at Norfolk, Virginia's prominent St. Paul's Church from 1849 to 1855 (upon his demise from yellow fever) but it would require further research to verify whether it is the same individual. Only a fair copy but apparently a rather uncommon book for OCLC cites only nine copies among member libraries.…