The Faith As Unfolded by Many Prophets: An Essay

Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1833. First American Edition. 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine label; [2],177pp. Light wear to extremities, spine cloth a bit faded, corners bumped, light foxing throughout, else a Very Good, quite fresh copy. One of three lengthy essays authored for the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association as an introduction and promotion of Christian Unitarianism, this specifically addressed to "Mohammedans" and written in the form of a dialogue between friends Havilah, a Muslim, and Eber, a Christian. Martineau, raised in a Unitarian household, began her career writing articles for the Unitarian journal "The Monthly Repository," though she later left the Church (for more information see Ruth Watts, "Harriet Martineau and the Unitarian Tradition of Education" in "Oxford Review of Education," Vol. 37, no. 5, October, 2011, pp. 637-351).