[WHITE ( Joseph Blanco )]. Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in search of a religion. With notes and illustrations, NOT by the Editor of "Captain Rock's Memoirs." Dublin : Richard Milliken …, 1833FIRST EDITION, pages xvii, 249 : (6), 245 and errata slip, with the half-titles, 2 vols, 12mo, attractively bound in near contemporary half polished calf, gilt, fully gilt spines, with double labels, gilt, silk markers : with some very slight wear at the headbands, but still an attractive, pleasantly bound copy.José María Blanco y Crespo (1775-1841), aka Joseph Blanco White, a poet who composed in both Spanish and English, a literary critic, novelist, essayist, journalist and religious controversialist who challenged the power of the Catholic Church and the political and intellectual establishments of his time. In his political writing he was an early advocate of Spanish American independence. In his religious writing he wrote as a rationalist critic of orthodox theology and influenced both Anglican and Unitarian thought. He was educated for the Roman Catholic priesthood, but after his ordination in 1800, religious doubts led him to escape from Spain to England (1810). There he entered the Anglican Church, having studied theology at Oxford and made the friendship of Arnold, Newman and Whately. He became tutor in Whately's family when he was made archbishop of Dublin in 1831. While in this position he embraced Unitarian views, and found asylum amongst the Unitarians of Liverpool. He is best remembered for his sonnet "Night and Death", which was dedicated to Samuel Taylor Coleridge.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) [BULWER-LYTTON ( Edward R. ), first Earl of Lytton. Clytemnestra, The Earls Return, The Artist, and other poems. By Owen Meredith. Chapman and Hall, 1855.GUIZOT ( François P. G. ). The History of Civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution. Translated by William Hazlitt. D.Bogue, 1851-53-46. Editions not stated, with engraved frontispieces, pp xxx, 490 : xi, 512 : xi, 498, without half-titles, 3 vols, small 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt bordered sides, gilt spines, double labels, gilt: light foxing of titles and spines evenly faded, otherwise attractive and very good. (3)IRELAND; RELIGION; ENGLISH LITERATURE; ; VERSE; HISTORY; ; ; ; ; ;