The Essential Faith of the Universal Church; Deduced from the Sacred Records

Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1833. First American Edition. 12mo (15cm.); publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine label; 170pp. Spine cloth a shade faded, endpapers toned due to inferior stock, light foxing throughout, else a Very Good and 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 members of the Catholic Church. 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).