1885 Annie Besant Autobiographical Sketches Victorian Hardcover Book (Freethought Publishing Company London)

Own a rare piece of literary history with this 1885 first edition hardcover book, Autobiographical Sketches by Annie Besant. Published by the Freethought Publishing Company in London, this historic volume is bound in its original green cloth with elegant gilt motifs. Despite its age, the book remains in excellent condition with the binding fully intact, featuring only expected minor rubbing along the spine and cloth board edges. This authentic antique is a must-have for serious collectors of Victorian-era literature and secularist history.

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1885 First Edition Hardcover Book "Autobiographical Sketches" by Annie Besant, published by the Freethought Publishing Company, London. Excellent condition for its age, some rubbing along spine and cloth board edges. Green cloth with gilt motifs. Binding intact. About the book: Published as a serialized series in her journal Our Corner and later as a book, Annie Besant's Autobiographical Sketches (1885) detail her formative years, her unhappy marriage to a clergyman, her agonizing deconversion to atheism, and her fierce battles as a Victorian secularist and women's rights pioneer.

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