Author: John Foster
Title: Essays in a Series of Letters
Description: London, Holdsworth and Ball, 1833. Leather. A later edition of John Foster's personal and religious essays unusual in a fine decorative binding. On a man's writing memoirs of himself. On decision of character. On the application of the epithet romantic. On some of the causes by which evangelical religion has been rendered unacceptable to persons of cultivated taste. "The book had been two years in the writing, and contained four essays..It was extremely successful. By 1856 it had run to twenty editions, and the Bristol Mirror (quoted in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1843) commented: "He paints metaphysics"" -ODNB. In a half morocco binding. Externally, FINE. Internally, firmly bound, with just the occasional isolated spot, becoming prominent to the first and last few pages. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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