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THE MODERN TRAVELLER (3 Volumes On Africa, First Editions) by Josiah Conder
London: James Duncan, 1830
16mo, Vol. 1: iv + 374pp., Vol. 2: iv + 248pp., Vol. 3: v + 232pp. Quarter leather bindings and marbled edges, with 7 plates and 1 fold-out map.
Josiah Conder (1789-1855), was an abolitionist, author and hymn-writer. A correspondent of Robert Southey and well-connected to Romantic authors of his day, he was editor of the British literary magazine The Eclectic Review, the Nonconformist and abolitionist newspaper The Patriot, the author of romantic verses, poetry, and many popular hymns that survive to this day. His most ambitious non-fiction work was the thirty-volume worldwide geographical tome The Modern Traveller; and his best-selling compilation book The Congregational Hymn Book. Conder was a prominent London Congregationalist, an abolitionist, and took an active part in seeking to repeal British anti-Jewish laws.
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