Author: Bushnell, Horace
Title: Work and Play: Or Literary Varieties
Description: New York: Charles Scribners, 1864. 1864. New York: Charles Scribners, 1864. 1864. Very good. - Octavo, dark brown pebbled cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a decoration in blind on the covers. The cloth is worn at the corners and the head and tail of the spine are heavily chipped. The cloth is split along the top inch or two of the front and rear joints with some of the cloth chipped away from the top of the front joint. 464 pages. An early owner's name is penned at the top of the front endpaper. Else, an internally very good clean copy.

First edition.

Horace Bushnell (1802- 1876) is called the father of American religious liberalism.

Chapters include: "Work and Play", "The True Wealth or Weal of Nations", "The Growth of Law", "The Founders Great in their Unconsciousness", "Historical Estimate of Connecticut", "Agriculture at the East", "Life, or the Lives", "City Plans", "The Doctrine of Loyalty", "The Age of Homespun", "The Day of Roads", and "Religious Music". Very good .

Keywords: RELIGION; LAW; AMERICANA; ECONOMICS; PHILOSOPHY; HORACE BUSHNELL; FIRST EDITION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; HISTORY; FOUNDING FATHERS; CONNECTICUT; 19TH CENTURY; AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LIBERALISM; 1ST EDITION; WORK AND PLAY; CITY PLANS; ROADS; RELIGIOUS MUSIC.

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