The Fair Haven is a reworking of Butler\'s pamphlet on the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and is one of Butler\'s least known works. Published anonymously in 1873, the book poses as the memoir of John Pickard Owen, a fictional champion of the Gospels, and offers an ironical defence of certain cardinal dogmas of Christianity. This volume is number 494 of 750 copies (numbers 376 to 750 were reserved for the U.S), and is volume three of the 1923 Shrewsbury edition of the Works of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones and A.T. Bartholomew. Half leather binding on blue cloth boards, bumped at corners. The spine has small nicks at head and tail and a little bumping.Gilt top edge; uncut to fore and base. Extremely slight spotting to prelims, otherwise pages clean and bright.