THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND OUR CHILDREN THERE
Book Details + Condition: James Speirs (London). Early Edition, 1876 (first published 1875). Scarce. Hardcover. Small octavo. 76 pages, with 8 pages of advertisements. Original brown cloth with gilt title on spine, and gilt title and decorations and blind borders on front board. All edges gilt. Rev. Chauncey Giles (1813-1893) was a Massachusetts-born minister who became the leader of the Swedenborgian Church in America and wrote a number of books on the subject of man's spiritual nature and the afterlife. Contents include: The Nature of the Spirit and of Man as a Spiritual Being; The Death of Man; Man in Heaven; What Children are After Death; Who Takes Care of Them; The Home Provided for Them; and more. A solid, internally-clean good copy, with some wear at spine ends, edges and corners; book a bit cocked; spine rubbed and discolored; interior hinge cracked but binding remains firm; lacking front free endpaper; foxing to half-title page; pages toned.