A very nice first gathered edition of the Sermons Spurgeon contracted with T. De Witt Talmage to provide for his paper, The Illustrated Christian Weekly. Here published in an attractive red cloth binding and with a rather clumsy, but charming frontis of Spurgeon looking "almost" like himself.
Spurgeon, C. H. Messages of Hope and Faith. New Sermons by Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. With a Sketch of His lIfe by S. P. Spreng. Cleveland. Lauer & Mattill. 1889. 400pp.
A good + copy, bound in cloth, lightly shaken, with some toning as usual.
