[Lackington, James]:

$150 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE CONFESSIONS OF J. LACKINGTON, LATE BOOKSELLER, AT THE TEMPLE OF THE MUSES, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO A FRIEND. Second American edition of the legendary bookseller's last autobiographical work. In his earlier memoirs, Lackington had described his "strange rise" to celebrity and fortune as the proprietor of "probably the greatest book-store in the known world," attacking Christianity and the Methodists who had helped him along the way. In the present work, the author re-examines his career and his religious life, detailing his personal experience of the conflict between Deism and Christianity and describing his ultimate reconversion to Methodism.

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