1842 SUNDAY SCHOOL ADVOCATE. Methodist Periodical with Missionary, Slavery, and Americana Content.

Rather rare publication in near folio with an extensive suite of woodcut engravings, apparently created for the publication. Excellent content as well. No other copies on the market at the time of listing. 

Textual contents include: An Article on an Engraving of the Parish Church at Epworth [John Wesley, etc.]; A Missionary Hymn; The Harmony of Nature Destroyed by Sin by Richard Treffry; Character of a Sot; Beef Instead of Rum; Life of Abolitionist Legh Richmond; An Indian's Illustration of the Trinity; On Sanctified Sorrow; The Profane Child Admonished; The Dying Child and the Bible Society; The Lost Child Preserved by a Sheepdog; Biography of George Whitefield; The First Church in Connecticut; The Love of God; Saamy the Hindoo; The Air-Balloon; Biography of Rowland Hill [w/Engraving]; Noah; Awful Death of an Infidel; The Progress of Sin; a Prayer Answered on Behalf of Two Orphan Boys; Pendulous Nests of East India Birds [Illustrated]; The Second Death; The Savior's Regard for Children; A Missionary's Wardrobe; The Sleeper Awakened; The Swearer Rebuked - An Anecdote of General George Washington; The Missionary John Williams and Buteve; John Wesley at Cornwall; Opening of a Christian School in Ceylon [with Engraving]; Temperance in the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii]; A Convicted Negro; The Negro Scholar; The Laplanders [Lapland - with Engraving]; Victim of Hindoo Superstition; The Idiot Boy; The Esquimaux Woman [with Engraving]; A Negro Converted; etc. 

Engravings include: View in Lakemba One of the Feejee / Fiji Islands; View of the Parish Church at Epworth; Engraving of the Rectory at Epworth - Residence of the Wesley Family; The River Nile; The Missionary Meeting and the Little Boy's Half-Crown; The Good Shepherd; Christ in Gethsemane; Samuel Wesley; The Falling Kite [as an example of pride]; Abel Slaying Cain; George Whitefield [an example I haven't seen elsewhere, initialed, R. N. W.]; The First Church in Connecticut; The Air Balloon; Rowland Hill; Noah's Ark [charming]; Fascinating Woodcut of a Man in Drunken Rage; The Banian Tree [Banyan]; Quaint Engraving of John Williams; Natives of Rarotonga Delivering Up their Idols; Lapland; Hindoo Human Self-Sacrifice; Esquimaux Woman; A Sandwich Islander [Hawaiian]; 

The Sunday School Advocate: A Semi-Monthly Periodical, Devoted to the Interests of Sunday Schools in the M.E. Church. October 4.1842 to September 19, 1842 [Complete]. New York. 1842. 190pp + Index.

10 x 12 inches in rubbed quarter leather binding, one board detached. Contents complete, but handled with occasional tears and foxing throughout as shown. A good - to fair example of a rare imprint.