Author: Gale, John B.
Title: Affinity No Bar to Marriage
Description: Troy, NY: William H. Young, 1881. Softcover. First edition; 9 x 5 3/4; pp. 77; beige wraps printed in black; small cuts to tips of spine; lower corners of wraps with crease lines; faint dust-dulling; very good condition. Published in support of one's right to marrying his deceased wife's sister, John Gale's pamphlet was also an attack on the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States, the Right Reverend William Croswell Doane's (1832 - 1913) 1880 publication "God's Law of Marriage," which urged the implicit ban of the said marriage. Ill.: 0. 2.

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