IN DARKEST ENGLAND AND THE WAY OUT

London: International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, [1890]. First Edition. Hardcover. 1891 owner name on half-title page; minor wear to spine tips and rubbing to spine edges. Very Good. Original cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated with a large folding color frontispiece depicting the impact of the Salvation Army's proposed "Scheme of Social Selection and Salvation" to redress the social evils afflicting England. Printing and the Mind of Man 373. In this important book, published the same year as Stanley's IN DARKEST AFRICA, the founder of the Salvation Army analyzed the causes of vice and poverty and proposed a ten-step remedy, which in large (truncated) part was carried out. A classic in the literature of poverty and its solutions. (Inventory #: 021864)