1899 1st Edtn/1st Prnt With Provenance THE GREAT LAW By William Williamson Good Esoteric

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1899 1st Edition 1st Printing, With Provenance
THE GREAT LAW
A Study of Religious Origins and of the Unity Underlying Them
By William Williamson
W. Williamson the author is the theosophist William Scott-Elliot, who used “W. Williamson” as a pen-name; the book was discussed in The Theosophical Review and is cited by Leadbeater and Besant.

Format: Hardcover,
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: Longmans, Green & Co, London

octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 431

First edition of a wide-ranging comparative study arguing that the major religious traditions preserve fragments of a single underlying “Great Law.” Williamson mines ritual and myth from Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Greece and Christianity to trace recurring structures—trinities, dying-and-rising figures, sacramental blood-covenants, ark and flood symbolism—and attempts a unifying interpretation. Very much of the fin-de-siècle comparative-religion / theosophical moment and cited in later occult and esoteric bibliographies.

From the library of the Mills family, Barons Hillingdon (bankers; Glyn, Mills & Co.): engraved armorial bookplate with the motto “Nil Conscire Sibi” to front pastedown; the cloth front board blocked in gilt with the family’s crowned monogram/cypher. Private library copies from Hillingdon occasionally surface; the gilt cypher on the binding is a nice additional touch.

SKU: BTETM0002618
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

Good - Williamson, W. (pseud. William Scott-Elliot) 1899 The Great Law, a Study of Religious Origins and of the Unity Underlying Them. London, New York & Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co. Publisher's blue cloth, boards soiled & scuffed, extremities rather bumped as are the head and tail of the spine, edges uncut, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, occ. spot internally. A scarce late Victorian examination of the histories of global religions, written by Scott-Elliot, a prominent member of the London Lodge Theosophical Society & known for his writings on Atlantis. It is believed that Charles W. Leadbeater also contributed to the work. 8vo. Please see photos as part of condition report

1899 1st Edtn/1st Prnt With Provenance THE GREAT LAW By William Williamson Good Esoteric

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