(BEECHER, HENRY WARD) (1813-87)
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Description:American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God’s love, and his 1875 adultery trial. His rhetorical focus on the love of Christ has influenced mainstream Christianity through the 21st century.
BOOK: Henry Ward Beecher: A Sketch of His Career, with Analyses of his Power as a Preacher, Lecturer, Orator and Journalist, and Incidents and Reminiscences of His Life. Clipped signature of Beecher has been mountd to front endpaper. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1887, First Edition. Thick octavo (23cm) brown cloth titled in gilt on spine, with author’s facsimile signature stamped in gilt within a double blind-ruled border on front cover; floral patterned enpapers; with portrait frontispiece and 16 plates of illustrations. Light wear to spine ends and extremities, faint foxing to text edges, with more pronounced foxing to a few preliminary leaves and the frontispiece; hinges sound; Very Good+ or better.
This is the FIRST PRINTING of this substantial tribute to Beecher. The first and third parts are biographical and dedicated to his speeches and statements on various subjects, though the most substantial portion is dedicated to reminiscences from his contemporaries. It contains, among many others, the first appearance of a two-page tribute by Frederick Douglass, telling of their meeting, and urging people to remember Beecheer for his good deeds (at the time of his death, Beecher was not completely out from under the cloud of the adultery scandal in which he was embroiled).
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