A Collection of Extemporaneous Discourses, delivered by Elias Hicks, in his tour through Dutchess County, during the Summer.. 1829

Elias HICKS (1748-1830).

A Collection of Extemporaneous Discourses, delivered by Elias Hicks, in his tour through Dutchess County, during the Summer of 1829. Taken in Short Hand, by Henry P. Hoag, Stenographer. New York: printed for the proprietor by H.R. Piercy, 1830. 12mo signed in sixes (7 1/8 x 4 5/8ins; 181 x 118mm). Pp. [1-]4-250. Original boards, letterpress title to upper cover, backed at an early date in leather (scuffing and bumping to extremities, some damage to rear endpapers).

Rare – OCLC lists only three examples, no copies for sale or sold. There is a fourth copy in the AAS. The young Walt Whitman heard Hicks preach in 1829, and said later that  “"Always Elias Hicks gives the service of pointing to the fountain of all naked theology, all religion, all worship, all the truth to which you are possibly eligible—namely in yourself and your inherent relations. Others talk of Bibles, saints, churches, exhortations, vicarious atonements—the canons outside of yourself and apart from man—Elias Hicks points to the religion inside of man's very own nature. This he incessantly labors to kindle, nourish, educate, bring forward and strengthen.” American Antiquarian Society call number X725 H631 C830);  OCLC 505229605 (2 copies) & 80986650 (1 copy)