The Life of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D. Late Bishop of London. By the Rev. Robert Hodgson, A.M.F.R.S. Rector of St. George's Hanover-Square, and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to his Majesty.

HODGSON, [Rev.] Robert (c.1773-1844).

London: For T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812. [Religious history] LEATHER-BOUND EARLY EDITION, the third. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 320 [4]. With a stipple-engraved frontispiece by Charles Picart. Contemporary tan full diced calf, board edges gilt-ruled. Spine with gilt titles, raised bands, and blind tooling. Marbled endpapers. All edges speckled red. Internally bright and clean, the odd bit of spotting here and there. Offsetting from frontispiece to facing leaves. Calf moderately marked and discoloured to extremities. Slight cracking to joints. Light edgewear. Very good. Beilby Porteus (1731-1809), initially bishop of Chester and then of London, was a leading English abolitionist who at first tried to limit the volume of human trafficking to England but eventually called for the dismantling of slavery itself. Item #66793

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