A very crisp, reading copy of Benson's classic, containing the biography, diary entries, letters, notes of sermons, and dissertations of Bernard Gilpin (1803-1871).

The son of an Anglican divine at Pulverbatch, he became a dissenter and subsequently  minister of the nonconformist "Port Vale Chapel" there. Excellent accounts of local revivals during the late 1820's and into the 1830's.

Benson, R. B. [Ed.]. Memorials of the Life and Ministry of Bernard Gilpin, M. A., Formerly Rector of St. Andrew's, Hertford, and Afterwards for 33 Years Minister of Port Vale Chapel. With a Biography of his First Wife Henrietta. Edited by his Son-in-Law R. B. Benson. Oxford. J. C. Pembrey. 1874. 504pp.

A very good copy, rebound in crisp black buckram, generally solid, with generally bright pages.