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Two Apologies, One for Christianity, in a Series of Letters addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq. The Other for The Bible, in answer to Thomas Paine. To which are added Two Sermons, and a Charge, in defence of Revealed Religion
by WATSON (Richard):
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London: Printed for Scatcher and Letterman..., 1818. Large 8vo, 213 X 132 mms., pp. [iii] - viii, 470 [471 - 472 adverts], finely bound, "contemporary brown calf, wide raised bands tooled with a quatrefoil between volutes, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, remainder with large circular device composed of quatrefoils, fleur-de-lys, palmettes, drawer handle tools, roundels, etc., covers with gilt border of triple fillets and wide palmette roll, with fan tool at each corner in blind, inner lozenge panel of blind rope roll and gilt leaf and volute roll, with blind volute tools at the corners, and a blind fleuron and volute device in the middle, gilt scalloped floral roll on edges, leaf and volute roll repeated on turn-ins," to quote the description of someone who knows more than I could ever know about describing bindings, and with 19th century bookseller's ticket of "Richd. Newby...,Cambridge" on the upper corner of the front paste-down end-paper and the bookplate of the Rev. E. S. Burting of Yeldon Rectory just below the bookseller's ticket. Rev. Edward Swanton Bunting (1791 - 1849) was Clerk, Rector and Patron of Yelden. Watson first published the letters to Gibbon in 1776 and the answer to Paine in 1796. The two works were first published together in 1806.
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- Two Apologies, One for Christianity, in a Series of Letters addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq. The Other for The Bible, in answer to Thomas Paine. To which are added Two Sermons, and a Charge, in defence of Revealed Religion
- Author
- WATSON (Richard):
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- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed for Scatcher and Letterman..., 1818
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- religion binding Prose
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- religion;
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