Good useful man (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Front., illus. Orig. purple pebble-grained cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine elaborately decorated & lettered in gilt; sl. dulled & marked. Bookseller's ticket of Noble, Boston, on leading pastedown. A nice copy. Copac records copies at LSE (volumes I & II) only; the BL has an incomplete run; OCLC records no further copies. The only auction record notes a copy selling in 1887. The first of only two volumes published of a monthly magazine dedicated to 'the elevation of man'. 'Our chief concern has been the social purification and advancement of society, consequently, we have advocated the principles, and enforced the claims of many moral movements, which aim at the diminution of error and the promotion of good'. From the collection of Robert Marshall, chemist, of Boston, Lincolnshire. …

Second edition, 8vo (197 x 122 mm), xiii, [3], 254, [2]pp., with a half-title and a final advertisement leaf, engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate, endpapers renewed, later full panelled calf, a very good copy. This was self-evidently an expansion and editing of Trowell's 'New Treatise of Husbandry', originally published in 1738. Provenance: Ink signature of 'Thomas Davis, 1792' to half-title. Rothamsted, p.149; Blanche Henry, 1442.…

First edition of this pioneering defence of ethical vegetarianism, "the first English work in which animals were said to have rights" (Perkins, p. 41). A Gloucestershire-born former shepherd and London merchant, Tryon (1634-1703) developed his religious and dietary philosophy under the influence of Jakob Böhme, having earlier been an Anabaptist. Combining mystical philosophy with practical dietary advice, the work advocates vegetarianism, temperance, and avoidance of tobacco. Tryon asserts that by killing animals, humans become more violent. It connects animal rights with English liberty, linking the rights of animals to those of people against the arbitrary power of the sovereign. The work went through several editions and inspired a celebratory poem by Aphra Behn; Tryon's writings encouraged Benjamin Franklin's youthful adoption of vegetarianism. Bitting, pp. 466-7; Cagle 1029; ESTC R10677. David Perkins, Romanticism and Animal Rights, 2003. Octavo (178 x 118 mm), pp. [16], 669, [3]. Contemporary panelled calf, blind floral cornerpieces. Nineteenth-century ownership signature of Thomas D. Wood to front free endpapers; pencilled signature of Chris Dyke dated 1821 to p. 434 and rear free endpaper; occasional early ink underlining and sidelining and a couple of annotations. Calf abraded, paperclip rust mark to first few leaves, a couple of headlines trimmed, small chip to leaf 4M2 with loss of a few letters, light worming at foot not affecting text: a very good copy.…