This is an inscribed, antique set of "The Ministry of Taunton (Massachusetts)" - With the Incidental Notices of Other Professions by Samuel Hopkins Emery (Pastor of one of its Churches). 1853 1st edition; John P. Jewett & Co.; Boston. Complete set in two volumes. Volume I contains an inscription by the author in pen on the front end paper, as follows:  "Rev. Martyn Cushman, Presented by the Author Rev. S.H. Emery, Taunton 1854." Each volume features an engraved frontispiece portrait and other engravings (with tissue guards), and facsimile documents. At the back of volume II is a list of "Autographs" (with facsimile signatures), "Lithographs," an "Index of Subjects", an "Index of Names," a "List of Subscribers," and a "Chapter of Errata."