The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church

221 pp. Full leather with black morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules, marbled endpapers. Printed the year the Methodist church split over the issue of slave ownership, this edition includes a new section addressing the church's new rules regarding slavery (essentially, if you own slaves or otherwise support the institution of slavery, you are no longer recognized as a member of the church). The southern contingent of the Methodist church formed its own separate congregation in reaction to these new rules, though the two factions were later reunited.