THE HUGUENOTS : THEIR SETTLEMENTS, CHURCHES, & INDUSTRIES IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND (PRESENTATION COPY)

Author: Smiles, Samuel
Title: THE HUGUENOTS : THEIR SETTLEMENTS, CHURCHES, & INDUSTRIES IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND (PRESENTATION COPY)
Publication: London, England: John Murray, 1868
Edition: Second Edition

Description: Leather-bound. Octavo, 8.7 in. x 5.6 in., pp. xv, [1], 534. Presentation copy as handwritten on the half title: "To Frances Bayley / With the author's kind regards."); Frances Bayley's armorial bookplate decorates the front pastedown. Dark brown half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title, panel decorations and five raised bands to spine. Marbled edges. Rubbing to edges, gutters, and raised bands. Corners just showing. Light scuffing to boards. Marbled endpapers. CLean pages with tight spine and hinges. Good Plus.

The Huguenots traces the history the movement from Martin Luther and the Reformation, the founding fathers of the movement and the early persecutions of the reformed through to the diaspora from continental Europe to England and Ireland and the consequences of the French Revolution. Written by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), a Scottish author and himself and active reformer, Smiles is perhaps best-remembered now for his incredibly popular self-help manuals such as Self-Help, Character, Thrift, Duty, Life and Labour, published between 1859 and 1887 and his Lives of Engineers. ... The Huguenots fits well into Smiles general ideas of social tolerance and the catastrophe that can result when personal and civil liberties are not observed. (from Irish Family history Centre).

Seller ID: 88888

Subject: Irish and Ireland

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