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

Please email for Photographs or further information. 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 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, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 431 Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Longmans, Green & Co, London Synopsis: 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