THE DRAMA OF LOVE AND DEATH: A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original light blue cloth with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a small white splash mark to the upper board, toning to the spine and a little wear to the extremities. The contents with a contemporary owner's name in ink to the front pastedown ("Cecil Morris"), toning to the endpapers, some faint spotting to the preliminary pages and a couple of small marks to fore-edge of the textblock are otherwise clean throughout.

An analysis of the interplay between love and death in the evolution of human society by the leading English socialist, poet, philosopher, advocate for women's rights, vegetarianism and 'the simple life', and hugely influential writer and activist in the struggle for sexual liberation and gay rights, Edward Carpenter (1844-1929).