Miall, James G. Footsteps of our Forefathers: What they Suffered and what they Sought; Describing Localities, and Portraying Personages and Events Conspicuous in the Struggles for Religious Liberty; Thirty-six Illustrations by Anclay, from Sketches by the Author, Engraved by Dickes, London. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1852. [10687]
Black publisher's cloth with bind borders & publisher's emblem, small chip with loss at the top of the spine, 7 3/4 x 5 inches, tight, small green label inside front, "Sold by Whipple & Son, Salem." 352 clean pp., many text illustrations, publisher's catalogue at end. Good. Hardcover.
"The design of the following work is to exhibit, in a form as little repulsive as the nature of the subject will allow, some of the phenomena of Religious Intolerance, especially as it has been displayed in a Protestant form, and to indicate the mistaken principle in which these melancholy results have had their origin...to show how any religious system, whether Episcopal, Presbyterian or Congregational, may become vitiated and perverted by its alliance with the powers of the state, and by the assumption, exclusiveness and worldly pride, which a connection invariably engenders." - Preface.
James Goodeve Miall (1805-1896), b. Portsmouth, Hampshire, England; d. Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Miall was an Independent minister and author who wrote biographies and histories of Congregational interest, include the a life of Philip Doddridge and the history of Congregationalism in Yorkshire.
