Lot 326
Brontë (Rev. Patrick) A Sermon Preached in the Church of Haworth, On Sunday, the 12th Day of September, 1824, in Reference to an Earthquake, And extraordinary Eruption of Mud and Water, that had taken place ten days before in the Moors of that Chapelry, Bradford, 1824.
Hammer Price: £1,100
Description
Brontë (Rev. Patrick) A Sermon Preached in the Church of Haworth, On Sunday, the 12th Day of September, 1824, in Reference to an Earthquake, And extraordinary Eruption of Mud and Water, that had taken place ten days before in the Moors of that Chapelry, later half calf, gilt, spine faded, some light rubbing or scuffing, 8vo, Bradford, T.Inkersley, 1824.
⁂ Rare, COPAC lists only 2 copies and we can trace only 3 copies at auction in the last 50 years.
On the 2nd September, 1824, the bog at Crow Hill burst, causing flooding and a landslide. Patrick Brontë had watched a coming storm with some apprehension from the parsonage, knowing that his children were out playing on the common. Eventually his worry overcame him and he ventured out to find them scared and huddled in the porch of a house. It was once there that he saw the destruction and danger caused by the eruption: a two metre-high wall of mud and water had poured down the valley, thankfully warning had been given ahead and there was no loss of life. To an evangelical like Patrick Brontë, the Crow Hill Bog Burst stood as a warning for mankind to repent before the coming end of the world.
Description
Brontë (Rev. Patrick) A Sermon Preached in the Church of Haworth, On Sunday, the 12th Day of September, 1824, in Reference to an Earthquake, And extraordinary Eruption of Mud and Water, that had taken place ten days before in the Moors of that Chapelry, later half calf, gilt, spine faded, some light rubbing or scuffing, 8vo, Bradford, T.Inkersley, 1824.
⁂ Rare, COPAC lists only 2 copies and we can trace only 3 copies at auction in the last 50 years.
On the 2nd September, 1824, the bog at Crow Hill burst, causing flooding and a landslide. Patrick Brontë had watched a coming storm with some apprehension from the parsonage, knowing that his children were out playing on the common. Eventually his worry overcame him and he ventured out to find them scared and huddled in the porch of a house. It was once there that he saw the destruction and danger caused by the eruption: a two metre-high wall of mud and water had poured down the valley, thankfully warning had been given ahead and there was no loss of life. To an evangelical like Patrick Brontë, the Crow Hill Bog Burst stood as a warning for mankind to repent before the coming end of the world.
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