TWO LECTURES ON THE ADVANTAGES OF A REPUBLICAN CONDITION OF SOCIETY, for the Promotion of the Arts, and the Cultivation of Science

Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1833. First edition. 22.5 cm. 42 pp., frontis. illustration of The Temple of Indra, with tissue guard. Original gray printed wrappers. Disbound. Errata on verso of front wrap. American Imprints 22623. Whitcomb was an advocate of labor solidarity and a public school system. Inscribed in ink on the front wrap "by the au[thor]" (partially trimmed) to the Rev'd Mr. [Orestes] Brownson (of Canton). Brownson served as minister of the Unitarian Church in Canton, Mass. from 1834-36.