The Rights of Animals, and Man's Obligation to Treat Them With Humanity
London: John Mardon, 1838.
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Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. Original brown cloth with printed paper spine label. 216 pp. Front fly adhered to pastedown, edgewear at the joints, corners a little bumped, and some scattered foxing, a very good copy. An important work concerning animal rights by a noted Irish Presbyterian minister and Unitarian theologian, poet, and translator of ancient Irish legends. His passionate concern for the rights of animals led him in 1830 to deliver and publish at the behest of the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals a discourse titled "Humanity to Animals: The Christian's Duty," which he later expanded into this book.
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