Animals' Rights

Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress
First page of the 1894 first American edition
AuthorHenry Stephens Salt
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAnimal rights
PublisherGeorge Bell & Sons
Publication date
1892 (first American edition 1894; first edition reprint 1980; second edition, 1915; third edition, 1922)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages166

Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress is an 1892 book by the English social reformer Henry Stephens Salt.[1] It is widely considered to be the first explicit treatment of the concept of animal rights.[2]

  1. ^ "Animals' Rights, Considered in Relation to Social Progress". Henry S. Salt Society. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  2. ^ Taylor, Angus. Animals and Ethics. Broadview Press, 2003, p. 61.