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 Author Name: Hocking, Silas K
Title: For Light and Liberty
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Reprint
Size: 5 x 7 1/2"
Publisher: London Frederick Warne
Illustrator: Johnson, Alfred
Seller ID: 003153
370pp inc 6pp publisher's catalogue of Hocking's books - Undated but appears to be late 19th Century. In 1935, Her Benny, by Silas K Hocking (b. 1850 in Cornwall) is said to have become the first novel to sell 1 million copies in its author's lifetime, according to the Burnley Borough Council website and other sources. Hocking was one of the last of the "Evangelical books for children" authors. According to The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature such authors were less interested in reducing childhood poverty than with leading them to religion, quoting one of his characters as noting "we shall all be well-off in the 'better land'."
See feature article about Hocking and other subjects on our website and clicking on the FEATURES link. Cover (red cloth with blind-stamped floral pattern to side of front and gilt-stamped titles to front and spine) is age-darkened esp around edges and spine. Text block (with gilt top and front page edges) is clean and tight though discolored from age and with some foxing.
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