[Rarebooks] FS: Longfellow INSCRIBED First Edition to Mrs. Theodore Parker

[Charles Agvent]

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. AFTERMATH. London: George Routledge and 
Sons, 1873. First British Edition. According to BAL 12164, "Apparently 
published simultaneously in Boston and London." Small octavo (4" x 
6-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-ruled and lettered green cloth with 
black stamping. State 1. A Presentation Copy from Longfellow INSCRIBED 
in the poet's distinct hand on the verso of the front endpaper: "Mrs. 
Theodore Parker/with kind regards/of the Author/June 11, 1874." Owner 
name of E. M. Vincent on the half-title page. Some bubbling to the 
cloth, light rubbing and wear to the spine tips. Very Good and a fine 
Association Copy.

Mrs. Theodore Parker (Lydia Cabot) was the wife of Theodore Parker 
(1810-1860) who was a leading abolitionist, American Transcendentalist, 
and, along with William Ellery Channing, the most important and 
influential Unitarian minister of the nineteenth century. Parker's 
sermons inspired speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Parker wrote in 1850: "A democracy -- that is a government of all the 
people, by all the people, for all the people." And it was Parker in 
1853 who said, "I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the 
arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward 
justice." (#017695) $2,000.00

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