1838 WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. First Edition Life of William Wilberforce - In Five Fine Leather Bindings. MethodistA really attractively bound set, and the only first edition set, of this important five volume biography of the life of the iconic abolitionist, William Wilberforce. Wilberforce, Robert Isaac; and Samuel Wilberforce. The Life of William Wilberforce. In Five Volumes. London. John Murray. 1838. First Edition. Bound in very attractive half morocco with raised bands and tooled compartments, marbled boards, and all edges very finely gilt in gold. Some
aiming to make Scripture more genuinely usable at the local level
rich and unusual for an American slave
Potentially repurposed from an earlier rebinding
went public and got a bit nasty in the Methodist Magazine
A Lancelot Harrison married a Susannah Moody at Haxey in Lincolnshire in 1769 (Ancestry)
He was a moderate to luke-warm anti-slavery Presbyterian [believing that slavery as an institution was an evil
It would be difficult to overestimate the value of these documents as a core collection related to William Wilberforce and/or the abolition of the slave trade
com) and a scan of one of his books here: The White Sunlight of Potent Words (squarespace
Bishop Tucker [1849-1919] was a man much ahead of his time
that seems to have been taken by its owner to various higher life conferences and then autographed by the speakers
Rubbed through at corners and at various points
Very attractive fine prize binding in full calf of Mary Jones' classic for the littles