Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Rev. Andrew A. Bonar. Dundee: William Middleton, 64 High Street. MDCCCLVI (1856). Forty-fifth thousand. 606 pages. 5" x 7 1/2" leather bound hardcover. Legible gilt lettering on the spine. Wear to extremities, somewhat heavy on the top of the spine. Unblemished gilt embossment to the edges of the page block. Previous owner information from 1856? on the first blank page. It looks like a discrete bookseller's marking on the back of the front free endpaper. Inside the back cover is a price sticker (from 1915?) of $1.95. No other previous owner markings. No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. sHE16a

"Robert Murray M'Cheyne (21 May 1813 – 25 March 1843) was a minister in the Church of Scotland from 1835 to 1843. He was born at Edinburgh on 21 May 1813, was educated at the university and at the Divinity Hall of his native city, and was assistant at Larbert and Dunipace. A mission of inquiry among the Jews throughout Europe and in Palestine, and a religious revival at his church in Dundee, made him feel that he was being called to evangelistic rather than to pastoral work, but before he could carry out his plans he died, on 25 March 1843. McCheyne, though wielding remarkable influence in his lifetime, was still more powerful afterwards, through his Memoirs and Remains, edited by Andrew Bonar, which ran into far over a hundred English editions. Some of his hymns became well known and his Bible reading plan is still in common use." - Wikipedia