Book Details + Condition: James Speirs (London). First Edition, 1887. 240 pages. Hardcover with gilt-stamped brown boards. Treatise on mythology and Christianity by English Swedenborgian physician and writer James John Garth Wilkinson. Topics include Greek, Egyptian, and Assyrian mythology, human evolution and creation, Swedenborg, Superstition, Idolatry, Serpent-myths, Divine and Human History, Paganism, and much more. An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding; gilt stamped initials to front board; light wear and scuffing to extremities; softening to spine ends; light age-toning to interior; pasted-in publisher info over original notation on title page; interior is clean and free of markings.