Doddridge’s Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul – 1749 First American Printing

Doddridge, P[hilip]. The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul : Illustrated in a Course of Serious and Practical Addresses, Suited to Persons of every Character and Circumstance : With A Devout Meditation or Prayer, added to each Chapter. Sixth ed. Boston, N.E.: Printed by Rogers and Fowle for D. Henchman in Cornhill, 1749. Evans 6305, ETSC W32338 Sixth Ed.. This is the first American edition. Binding: Hardcover (Full Leather). Book Condition: Fair Condition. Item Type: Book. Pagination: [i]-xii, 4 unnumbered pages, [1]-262 (missing the final leaf of the text with pp. 263-264). Size: 6"-7" - Sextodecimo (16mo). First American Edition printed from the English Sixth Edition of Doddridge’s best-known and most influential work. He was a Dissenter, pastoring an independent church and establishing an academy for non-Anglican pupils. His friends included Isaac Watts, to whom this work is dedicated (though half of the initial page of that dedication is torn out of this copy). William Wilb