The Varieties of Religious Experience - A Study in Human Nature. Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902.

JAMES, WIlliam

Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1902

About this Item

First British edition, FIRST ISSUE. Publisher's grey-green cloth binding with paper title label on spine. Octavo, 534pp + colophon + 32pp, top edge gilt, Black endpapers, publisher's catalogue to rear; Nietsche misspelled at line 11 on page 38; binding tight and sound and text block is clean with moderate rubbing & wear to the boards & spine label (as usual) which is still intact Private library label on endpaper, edges browned, text clean and sound Just about a very good copy for this particular title which is now Mylar protected & housed in a custom green clamshell box with leather label. Published several weeks before the American edition, though the books were physically produced earlier (LC received its two copies May 26th). The British edition appeared June 9th, while the earliest notice in Publisher s Weekly for the American Edition was June 21st. See the bibliographical discussion on pages 555-6 of the Harvard edition. Wozniak catalog #62. It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 1901 and 1902. The lectures concerned the nature of religion and the neglect of science in the academic study of religion. Soon after its publication, Varieties entered the Western canon of psychology and philosophy and has remained in print for over a century. It's perhaps considered the greatest book ever published on the psychology of religion.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Varieties of Religious Experience - A Study in Human Nature. Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902.
• Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co., London
• Publication Date: 1902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket