" I was born in Sheffield, in the County of York, February 6 , 1754. Although my parents had had nineteen children none of them was alive when I was born" So begins this rare insightful & informative memoir of an itinerant Evangelical Methodist Preacher in late18th Century South Yorkshire and nearby Derbyshire villages. [An American edition was published in Baltimore in 1821 by Armstrong & Plaskitt ] A stone monument to the memory of Longden can be found in Carver Street chapel in Sheffield. A clean sound copy of the rare First Edition in re-backed original boards with an engraved frontispiece portrait and a plate of his headstone Crown 8vo.(vi).266pps From the Library of W.T.Freemantle of Barbott Hall Greasborough. Antiquarian and author of "A Bibliography of Sheffield & Vicinity" 1911