Hood, Edwin Paxton. Oliver Cromwell : His Life, Times, Battlefields, and Contemporaries. New York: A. L. Burt, Publisher, c. 1900. [12382]
Dark green cloth with art nouveau designs and bright gilt titles, very slight signs of wear, 7 1/4 x 5 inches. B/w frontispiece plus two additional plates; 286 clean pp. with index. 27-page publisher's catalogue, address of publisher is 52-58 Duane Street, New York. Very good. Hardcover.
The Duane St. publisher's address and type of name place the publishing date of this book between 1900 and 1902.
The author's aim was "to set forth in a compendious manner, accessible to any person not possessed of too much time for wading through many or large volumes, the great Protector's claims...[also] to set forth some account of those great contemporaries of Cromwell, some knowledge of whose lives is necessary, as their names must inevitably appear in connection with his, and who therefore at once illustrate the great hero's work, while their works also receive illustration from his character and career." - Preface.
Edwin Paxton Hood (1820-1885), English nonconformist minister, periodical editor, hymn-writer, and author.
