Author: JAY, William
Title: A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.
Description: Boston [Philadelphia and New York]: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co. [Uriah Hunt & Co. M.W. Dodd], 1849. 1st Edition [1st issue stated on inserted note] 8vo. pp. 333. Original cloth, gilt to spine, faded and a little worn, end papers browned: two very small circular stamps for Cardiff Public Library. Presentation copy inscribed "Luther Maclish Esq. with the respects of the Author." William Jay was a jurist, an avid anti-war and anti slavery campaigner who drafted the constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society. "...one of the most talented and useful abolitionists in this country, who, by his pen and active labours, has performed a greater service to the cause than perhaps any other man." [Lewis Tappan]

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