Hardcover cloth 8vo, 182pp. Privately published in 1892, this is the second edition, "tastefully printed." A scarce and attractive production with gilt-stamped, beveled boards and blue ribbon placemarker. Illustrated with frontis portrait and decorative border throughout text. This copy in Very Good condition, slightly dusty and with subtle discoloration to boards. Christmas gift inscription on the first blank and engraved bookplate on the front pastedown designed by Anthony Euwer.

Catherine Pennefather (1817/18–1893), wife of Church of England clergyman William Pennefather. Mrs. Pennefather was a home mission worker, born in Fulham, Middlesex, was active in parochial work throughout her married life. From 1858 she was president of the Association of Female Workers, connected first with Barnet and then with Mildmay. She relaunched her work among orphans in 1872 and, following her husband's death, she presided over the further development of the Mildmay institutions. By her own death at 68 Mildmay Park, Islington, on 12 January 1893 these included twenty missions in London staffed by some eighty deaconesses; a mission to the Jews (started in 1876); a medical mission at Bethnal Green (from 1877); and a cottage hospital (established in 1883). Catherine Pennefather edited the Mildmay monthly journal, Service for the King, and published several small volumes of verse and Bible class notes, including Follow thou me (2 vols., 1881). - Oxford DNB