Church

Church
It has stood at 83 Essex Street Guelph since its base stones were set in late June 1880. Its cornerstone was set on September 17 1880 as recorded in the Guelph Mercury and Advertiser. The contents of the cornerstone were described in that article, "Copy of the Holy Scriptures, Hymn Book of the BME Church, copy of the Missionary Messenger - the organ of the church; and copies of the Mercury and Herald." Presumably, the contents had already been placed inside a tin box, hermetically sealed and then painted over before being placed in a carved-out section of the cornerstone, then covered with sand and mortared under the stone above it. The Mercury report noted that the structure was already twelve feet high, with half the basement four feet in the ground and the other four feet above it. The base stones of the church could well be mortared directly onto the same ridge of limestone that extends across the road to where the ground drops behind the southside homes and into a remnant of the quarry from which many of the nearby stone houses had also come. The Guelph BME was, by the 1880's, one of the last stone structures erected in the neighbourhood. The quarry had been owned by the man who had been awarded the contract to raise the church, William Slater, listed in the 1881 city directory as a stone cutter.

Monday, December 29, 2025

Single three in one volume Of Legends of the Morgeti

is still for sale, it is not being carried in stores,

not even the Bookshelf in Guelph seems interested anymore

despite them having sold many hundreds of copies back in the day.

Janus Books in the plaza off  Paisley Street by the Market Fresh

may have a copy.

Anything posted online by Amazon et al is a used book.

I do not use Amazon for anything.

Email me as per the address provided on this site.

I sell direct, and will mail via Canada Post, ie the price is the cost of the book

plus postage/bubblepack-envelope determined, payable one I learn the cost from the Post Office. 

Tracking is an added cost. E-transfers are simplest.

These are all new, micro-print runs I continue to get in small runs from my printer as required.

Each printing is in essence one continuous edition, as they are not revised editions,

I sign and date each one and personalize it for purchasers as requested. Ie To Uncle Billy Bla Blah, 

                                                                                                                     Jerry Prager 2025-12-29

Copies of the original three chapbook/"perfect binding" books are not available, although some volume 3s are, that being the blue book with the faulty index, I did not sell many on purpose, and went directly to the three-in-one after that. Those are actually the rarest of the 3 books in the sense of them having had only one small print run (50 I think.)  

I have considered having the three individual books reprinted, with a corrected index in the blue book,  they would all have "perfect bindings, and be clearly dated on the printed frontice, but I have not given much thought to that.

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