Giles, Henry. Illustrations of Genius, in some of its relations to Culture and Society. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. [12502]
Brown blindstamped publisher's cloth, faded gilt titles to spine, edge-worn with frayed corners and ends, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. Inscription and signature in pencil on the end papers. 362 toned pages; old light stain in the top margin of most pages. Fair. Hardcover.
The copyright is 1854. "Printed by Samuel B. Howard." "Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry."
Chapters on Cervantes, Don Quixote, The Scarlet Letter, Fiction, Public Opinion, The Philanthropic Sentiment, Music, The Cost of a Civilized Man, Conversation, Wordsworth, Robert Burns, and Thomas de Quincey.
Henry Giles (1809-1882), b. Co. Wexford, Ireland; d. Quincy, Massachusetts. He was born to a Roman Catholic family, and became first a Protestant minister, and then, a Unitarian one. When a pastor of a congregation in Liverpool, England, he and James Martineau and John Hamilton Thom engaged in a public debate with members of the Established Church, the results of which were published as Unitarianism Defended. Giles moved to the United States in 1840 and became an author and public lecturer.
