An Authentic Narrative of some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Life of ********.

£17,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Very Rare. OCLC and COPAC record BL and National Library of Scotland ; Huntington , Yal e (Tinker), New York Public Library , Rutgers University , Harvard , Illinois , Newberry and Toronto. A second edition appeared in the same year as the first and eight further British editions appeared before 1800 along with eight America editions. Later editions appear infrequently but the first edition is remarkably rare - aside from the present copy the only other copy of the first edition recorded on Rare Book Hub was in a Sawyer catalogue in 1964 (“With frontispiece and map, post 8vo, half roan, RARE”, £21). Mentioned in a list “New Books, since our last” in the Newcastle Chronicle Saturday 2nd March 1765 (priced at 2s). The very rare first edition of a publishing sensation: the extraordinary (novel-like) life of John Newton who overcame illness, shipwreck, imprisonment and his own personal demons as he cast aside his former horrifying life as a slave trader and turned abolitionist and leading evangelical clergyman. Newton’s influential epistolary account - which “weaves together the themes of religious conversion and romantic love with his seafaring career” - ranges from the Gold Coast of Africa to the slaving plantations of America. Newton’s remarkable autobiography begins with an account of his early life and his great affection for his mother who taught him hymns but died when he was six years old marking the first of many personal tragedies for the young man. Newton’s father was

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