Comprising of:

The Full Assurance that the Kingdom of Christ is at Hand from the Signs of the Times, 1806 – London – Printed by S. Rousseau

The Long-Wished for Revolution Announced to be at Hand in a Book Lately Published by L. Mayer 1806 – London – Printed by S. Rousseau

Answer to Mr. Brothers’s Book, Published in Sept. 1806, and Observations on his Former Writings 1806 – London - Printed by S. Rousseau

A Caution and Instruction to the Sealed - 1807 – London – Printed by W. Marchant

An Account of the Trials of Bills of Exchange Wherein the Deceit of Mr. John King and his Confederates, Under the Pretence of Lending Money, is Exposed, and their Arts Brought to Light - 1807 - London - Printed by S. Rousseau

An Answer to a Sermon Published and Preached by Mr. Smith 1808 – London - Printed by W. Marchant

From this Publication the Readers may Discern what is Hastening upon the Land, as they are Daily Provoking the Lord to Anger, by False Doctrine, as well as the Crying Sins of the Nation 1808 – London - Printed by W. Marchant

A True Picture of the World and a Looking-Glass for all Men c1809 – London – Printed by Galabin & Marchant

Observations Relative to the Divine Mission of Joanna Southcott By Daniel Roberts - 1807 – London - Printed by D. Walker

Communications of the Holy Spirit of God Given at Different times to George Turner By George Turner 1805 – Leeds – Printed by Edward Baines

Ten tracts by or related to Joanne Southcotte.

Bound in quarter calf leather with gilt lettering and marbled paper covered boards.

All are Scarce.

All works are First editions.

An Answer to a Sermon has errata: the pagination in signature E is wrong.

Observations with half-title.

There is a bound in slip with an ink signature.

Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was a self-described religious prophetess and author. She believed herself to be the woman clothed in sun from Revelations and that she would give birth to Shiloh. She is best known today for a sealed box of writings that she left instructions to be opened in a time of dire need with 24 bishops present.

When Southcott’s followers increased she devised a seal that she gave to her followers. Eventually it became a prerequisite that all those wishing to be sealed read two of her booklets, Sound an Alarm in my Holy Mountain (1804), and A Caution and Instruction to the Sealed (1807), the second of which is included in this volume.

Mary Bateman (1768–1809) obtained one of Southcott's seals in order to capitalise on the spirit of the age. She defrauded, bullied, and bribed a number of victims from York to Leeds, before being convicted and hanged in 1809 for poisoning one of her clients with arsenic. Southcott eventually denounced not only Bateman, but also the newspapers that malevolently deceived the public by insinuating that Southcott herself was somehow connected to fraud and murder in A True Picture of the World and a Looking Glass for All Men.

Brothers Richard (1757–1824) was a self-styled prophet. In his Dissertation on the Fall of Eve (1802) he made it clear that he rejected Joanna Southcott’s claims.

On Joanna Southcotte’s death George Turner claimed to be her successor. He claimed that Shiloh had been taken from Southcott's womb into Paradise until the appointed time. He was confine for a while in a Quaker asylum for the insane. He promised that Shiloh would appear in London on October 14, being born as a boy already six years old. When the date passed uneventfully, the faithful took it as merely a divine test of their love. Turner's own "voice" ordered him to marry, so that Shiloh might have a foster mother. Accordingly Turner chose a wife, and a new date of April 10, 1821, was pronounced for the birth of Shiloh. When nothing happened, some followers were disillusioned; others followed rival leaders.