Maroon cloth. Top edge gilt
1889 · Boston
by Fiske, John
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889. First edition. Maroon cloth. Top edge gilt. Spine sunned with minor fraying to head and heel, owner's leather label on front pastedown and shadow opposite, dampstain to lower inner margin not affecting text. Still about very good.. xvii, 296 pp. Folding Map. Illus. with 1 color folding map. Sm. 8vo. John Fiske (1842-1901), author, philosopher, lecturer and librarian at Harvard, and later Professor of American History, was an earlier follower of both Comte and Herbert Spencer, and became Spencer's chief popularizer among English-speaking students of his evolutionary philosophy. After 1879 Fiske turned to his attention to American History. Laid in a three page letter, dated 1878 on Harvard Stationary, by Fiske to Albert Gallatin Brown [Jr.] (1835-1891), the author of a number of legal books as well as the "Life of John Andrew," complaining about the difficulty of the common name Browne in his bibliographic work. (Inventory #: 19891)