Deliberate Writings. With Preface, a Brief Memoir, and an Appendix, by his wife, Eliza Macloghlin.

Published by Privately Printed at the Pear Tree Press, 1906

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SOLE EDITION, printed in black, red & green, with decorations throughout and a foliate border to title-page by the printer James Guthrie, portrait frontispiece (a photogravure by Emery Walker) with captioned tissue-guard, and a further plate of his grieving widow, a few faint little spots at either end of textblock, pp. xviii, [1], 99, [7], 4to, original beige linen, lettered in gilt to upper board with gilt decorations (by James Guthrie to upper and lower boards),little dinks to edges of upper board, a few light marks, edges untrimmed with the top edge a little dusty, faint spots to fore-edge, endpapers with attractive Guthrie designs incorporating Eliza Macloghlin's monogram, a few faint spots to flyleaf, very good. With an inscription by the author's widow to the initial blank: 'An Offering at the Altar of Righteousness, to Dr. C.T.[?] Porter, from Eliza Macloghlin'. The printed letter preceding the text is designated for the same, signed and dated. The literary remains of a Wigan surgeon, who had died two years earlier - assembled by his widow in lavish tribute. Her prefatory material includes a poem, 'In Memoriam', and a memoir in prose, which, though 'brief', exalts the attributes inherent from his birth in the very strongest terms. Two further elegies follow her Appendix at the close. Alongside her husband's correspondence, it collects his essays on 'Supernaturalism and Morality', 'Faith and Freethought', and 'The Bible and Sexual Morals'. One of only a few private commissions undertaken by James Guthrie at the Pear Tree Press, whose distinctive decorative style is evident. Subsequently the copy of author John Russell Taylor, and then into the estimable private press collection of David & Hermione Chambers.…

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Title
Deliberate Writings. With Preface, a Brief Memoir, and an Appendix, by his wife, Eliza Macloghlin.
Author
(Pear Tree Press.) MACLOGHLIN (Edward Percy Plantagenet)
Publisher
Privately Printed at the Pear Tree Press
Publication year
1906
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Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

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