Author: George Jacob Holyoake
Title: Sixty Years of an Agitator&Apos;S Life
Description: London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. Cloth. A pleasing two-volume set containing the autobiography of English secularist and newspaper editor, George Holyoake. The fourth impression of this work. Complete in two volumes. In the very smart original cloth binding.With a frontispiece portrait to volume one. With three leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear of volume two. George Jacob Holyoake was an English secularist, co-operator, and newspaper editor, who coined the terms 'secularism' in 1851 and 'jingoism' in 1878. This personal work details the editor's life through anecdotes and key historical moments of which he witnessed, such as the Anti-Corn Law League, the origins of Secularism, and his imprisonment due to his atheist publication, Oracle of Reason. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. With light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Slight darkening to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with age toning and a few spots to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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