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343 pp, 1862, no edition remarks.
Duodecimo (19 cm tall), rebacked in black calf with gilt tooling (including the publishing year) on spine and original brown cloth boards which show some edgewear and small marks. Internally good, with new blank endpapers; flyleaves show foxing, some pages with pencil marks and small edge loss to last page.
George Barrel Cheever was an American minister, reformist and abolitionist who was generally regarded as the most prominent among the Yankee apostles of reform. As a leader of the Christian Abolitionist Movement, he campaigned fiercely for temperance, abolition of slavery and rights for Blacks, yet curiously defended captial punishment.
Voices of Nature is a typical 19th-century creationist interpretation of nature. Cheever argued how phenomena and patterns in nature are symbolic of spiritual reality, and cannot make sense as an intellectual portayal or from an atheistic point of view.

Volume I only of the 3rd edition of John Oldmixon's most important work. The 3rd edition includes 'An Essay on Criticism' at the end of the book with separate pagination from the main text. Half title and title pages followed by xi, 309pp + xxii index pp + [4] advts. + 94 pp.
Octavo, rebacked in brown full calf binding with original reversed calf boards, spine with five raised bands and red spine label with gilt lettering. Signed by a William Porter of Ely on the inside of the front board. Binding in good condition, boards show edgewear, with some creases and small stains. Internally good, pages lightly tanned with some small wormholes and stains throughout the text.
John Oldmixon was an English Whig historian and pamphleteer from Somerset. Originally a composer of poetry and dramas, he later gained notoriety in his day for publishing his scathing views on how the history of England had been recorded by those before him, especially by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. A denier of feudalism, Oldmixon… Read More