CAMPBELL, Rev. W.G. ‘The Apostle of Kerry’ or, The Life of Rev. Charles Graham who had for many years, as his associate on The Irish General Mission the Celebrated Gideon Ouseley.

Also Four Appendices containing Mr. Graham’s sermons, an Irish hymn, etc. Dublin: Moffat, 1868. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. xxvii, 324. Modern half purple morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco letterpieces on spine. Original green blind-stamped cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, dark green endpapers. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Extremely rare.

Charles Graham, a native of Sligo, was the oldest of the Methodist evangelists who worked for a long time among the Irish peasantry from the beginning of the nineteenth century. Graham’s mission, along with the most colourful of Irish evangelists, Gideon Ousley, was to bring to the masses the gospel of personal revival and conversion, at an age when the Irish countryside was allegedly distinguished by “blasphemy, Sabbath-breaking and drunkenness ...Party spirit, pitched battles, sanguinary conflicts, nocturnal devastations and private murders.”