Twenty-Five Village Sermons.
KINGSLEY, Charles.
Twenty-Five Village Sermons.
First Edition of Charles Kingsley's Twenty-Five Village Sermons
London: John W. Parker, 1849.
$200.00
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Item Number: 151100
First edition of this collection of mid-19th-century sermons. Duodecimo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Tout & Sons with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was an English clergyman, novelist, and social reformer whose work combined religious thought with political and social critique. Associated with the Christian Socialist movement, Kingsley addressed issues of industrial labor, class inequality, and moral responsibility in both fiction and nonfiction, including 'Alton Locke' and 'Politics for the People'. Kingsley's chief asset as a novelist lay in his descriptive faculties: the descriptions of South American scenery in Westward Ho!, of the Egyptian desert in Hypatia, and of the North Devon scenery in Two Years Ago. American scenery is vividly and truthfully described, in part stemming from his observations during a lecture tour of the United States that he undertook in 1874.
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