The Law of Population Its Consequences and Its Bearing upon Human Conduct and Morals by Annie Besant
Publication: 1889 Henry Sumner; New York
A scarce early printing of Annie Besant’s landmark work on Victorian social reform. The work ranks among the most influential and controversial nineteenth-century studies of population, poverty, and reproductive ethics. Written at the height of public debate over censorship, free speech, and access to birth control information, the work arose directly from the climate that led to the 1877 prosecution of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh.
Condition: publishers flexible cloth boards, gilt title to spine, blind stamped boarders, gutters of front and rear pastedown with japanese paper repair, mild fading to the covers, overall in Very Good condition