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THE MARTYRDOM OF MAN

by READE, Winwood

$250 · Offered by Biblio

London: Trubner & Co., 1881. Firth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; viii, 544 pages, polished cherry red calf, marbled boards, extremities worn, covers re-hinged, ex libris of Allen A. Brown [designed by F. T. M. (?) ]; laid and tipped-in are numerous related newspaper clippings. The Conway booklet is even scarcer: WorldCat cites only 3 copies (all in the UK) "Let me recommend this book -one of the most remarkable ever penned. It is Winwood Reade's THE MARTYRDOM OF MAN -Sherlock Holmes in SIGN." "An elaborate and learned impeachment of Christianity from a historical and ethnological point of view -ENCYCLOPEDIA SHERLOCKIANA. This work was savagely attacked upon publication in 1872. Laid in is a booklet by Moncure D. Conway, THE MARTYRDOM OF MAN delivered before the South Place Religious Society, South Place, Finsbury. E. W. Allen: London. Issued in the series Lessons for the day, vol. 2; no. 27; April 5, 1883. ( 12 pages, wrappers repaired). Conway was an American abolitionist and Freethinker minister who became the leader at London's South Place Ethical Society - in his free time he acted as the literary agent in Britain for Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Mark Twain.

  • Publisher: Trubner & Co.
  • Year: 1881
  • Edition: Firth Edition
  • Binding: hardcover

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