A sermon preached at St Clement Dane's on Sunday, March 9th, and at Christ-Church, Spitalfields, on Sunday, June 29th, 1777.. For the benefit of the Humane Society, instituted for the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning. By Robert Markham, D.D. rector of St Mary's, Whitechapel.
Markham, Robert
Category
Books
Date
1778
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3216590
Summary
Bibliographic description
56p. ;. 8vo, 199mm x 128mm. Former shelfmark: PAM/8/9. Provenance: MS inscription on front flyleaf: The author will ever think himself highly honour'd by the Earl of Stamford's patronage, & should be much more so by his Lordship's approbation of the following sermon. [i.e.: a presentation copy from Robert Markham (1726 or 1727-1786) to George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1737-1819), to whom the printed sermon is dedicated (see pp. v-vi)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full blue paper wrappers; stab-stitched as issued.
Makers and roles
Markham, Robert