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A View of Religions, in Two Parts. Part I: Containing an Alphabetical Compendium of the Various Religious Denominations, Which Have Appeared in the World, From the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Present Day. Part II: Containing a Brief Account of the Different Schemes of Religion Now Embraced Among Mankind. The Whole Collected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern. By Hannah Adams. The Third Edition, With Large Additions. Published according to Act of Congress. Printed by and for Manning & Loring, Proprietors, No. 2, Cornhill, Boston, October, 1801. Full leather binding, 504 pp, 8.5 x 5.5", 8vo. In fair condition. Leather boards scuffed at edges and worn at corners. Head of spine has been modernly restored with a similar color brown leather. Tail appears to have been modernly restored as well. Front hinge rubbed midway, leather beginning to peel. Ex-library bookplate found on front paste-down: Private Library of Norman C. Richardson, Department of Religious Education, Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Chicago. Previous ownership signature, in ink, found at top edge of front end-page: W. Pickering, 13/6. Toning around edges of paste-downs, presumedly from binding glue, which has caused light off-setting on end-pages and flyleaves & title page. Front gutter beginning to split at dedication page with exposed cording. General toning throughout text-block, with some instances of age-staining and finger-soiling. Binding intact. Please see photos. Hannah Adams (1755-1831) was an American author of books on comparative religion and early United States history. She was born in Medfield, Massachusetts and died in Brookline, Massachusetts. Adams was the first woman in the United States who worked professionally as a writer. Her first work, A View of Religions , was first published in 1784, with a second and enlarged edition in 1791. The emolument she derived from this not only placed her in a comfortable situation, but enabled her to pay the debts she had contracted during her and her sister's illness, and lended a small sum at interest. This work was the result of Adams's dissatisfaction with the prejudice of most writers on the various religious sects. Adams was a popular guest in New England society, and once stayed for two weeks at the house of her distant cousin (whom this wok is dedicated to), President John Adams. Gift quality! Third Edition, 1801, includes dedication to John Adams (who, at this time, had died, so it is written to the "late President..."). COLR1801DFJK 03/24 - HK1325
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