Memorial of James Wood. The Twentieth Annual Report of the Irwell Street Wesleyan Good Samaritan Society Salford. (Being the Fifty-Sixth Annual Report since the commencement of the Society.

Salford: Irwell Street Wesleyan Good Samaritan Society/ Leigh & Co. Printers, 1880. 1st ed., slim octavo, full leather binding with title "Memorial of John Wood" stamped in gilt upper board and gilt border rule, decorated gilt endpapers, gilt inner dentelles, pp 17. some rubbing to spine, edges and corners. Very good condition.

Report of the Good Samaritan Society, Salford: the society was set up to provide some financial relief to the very poor. The rules of the society are set out, with a list of the officers of the society and a list of the subscriptions collected. Pages 6 - 11 are bordered in black and consist of an obituary of John Wood, born in 1817 and a member of the Good Samaritan society for 23 years: it describes his life and his religious activities. An uncommon record of nineteenth-century charitable organisations, "printed by steam power" in St Stephen Street, Salford. Item #103945

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