Punishment

by Death: its Authority and Expediency by George Cheever, arrell

$60 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

New York: John Wiley, 1849. First Edition. First printing. 12mo 20cm . Green cloth, blindstamped, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; ii , 119 -332pp. A straight, tight copy, cloth rubbed and faded, water damage to lower corner of front board, browned with occasional heavy foxing: Good only. Sequel to his 1846 Defense of Capital Punishment. Cheever, in the 1840s, was a popular preacher in

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