186 pages. The front end paper is discoloured and carries a gift inscription and minor staining to the front board, else clean, unmarked and solid. Full title: " The life and Christian experience of John Cowley Coles : giving the history of twenty-seven years of evangelistic work in the colony of Victoria, Australia, and elsewhere, principally in connection with the Wesleyan Methodist Church; also chapters on the doctrine of entire sanctification by faith, and the enduement of power; and an account of the social condition and mode of life of the diggers, in the early days of gold digging, in the same colony / written (at the request of many friends) by himself." Includes albeit briefly "A little known story of Ned Kelly and his death row encounter with the Wesleyan preacher John Cowley Coles."