£60
Local Interest, Methodism in Georgian Nottinghamshire - Joseph Raynor of Mansfield, civil engineer and an ardent Methodist, his ink manuscript commonplace book, 106pp inscribed from October 1804 onwards, mostly transcriptions and thoughts of a religious nature, including references to the Holy Bible, there is however an odd account of the 'Happy Death' of a soldier, John Birks, who died at Mansfield on 3rd October 1804, who, having left his regiment on furlough, drew his pay and spent most of it on the stagecoach to Mansfield, where he was not afraid not to die, glad that he saw the face of a Methodist - which he wouldn't have done at the army camp, the verso with some multiplication tables and mathematics, contemporary calf over marbled boards (perished, loosening contents), later 19th century printed yellow book label: Thos. Alex. Rayner, 4to, [1]
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