1856 C. H. SPURGEON. One of the First Biographies; "An Hour with C. H. Spurgeon."

By 1856, the 22 year old C. H. Spurgeon was a phenom. The church was swelling, his sermons were beginning to be circulated in large numbers, and his first book, The Saint and His Saviour, was at the press with James S. Virtue, one of the most prominent publishers in London. 

This led, not surprisingly to adulation, imitation, and, well criticism and jealousy. The present work attempts to ask a more fundamental question . . . why do so many people want to hear and read C. H. Spurgeon? 

This apparently the first of two editions, dated through the Copac Register as 1856. Held only at Oxford and the British Library.

A Doctor of Divinity. Why So Popular? An Hour with Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. London. William Freeman. Nd. 1856. 8pp. 

Good + to very good, neatly removed from larger sammelband. Small ink number at head of title, else crisp and clean.