edition.
Philadelphia: Printed for
T. Stephens, and
Denoon & Condie. By
Bioren & Madan,
mdccxcv
. [1795.]
12mo. 54 leaves collating in sixes. The preface signed T. C. [Thomas Condie] Philadelphia, Sept. 1795; the last 8 pages (sig. I
3-6) with a list of the publications of
Denoon & Condie.
Evans 29487.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Not in Cushing.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. This pamphlet was not listed by Jefferson on the fly-leaf of the volume, and is the only one in the volume initialled by him. It has no separate entry in his manuscript catalogue.
This is the second of three editions by the same publishers in 1795. The pamphlet was first printed in translation in London,
as by a Member of the Jacobins, and afterwards in Paris in French.
[1650]
2.
Watson’s Apology for Christianity.
WATSON,
Richard.
An Apology for Christianity, in a series of letters, addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq. Author of the History of the Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire. Being a necessary and instructive appendix thereto. By R. Watson, D.D. F.R.S. Lord Bishop of Landaff, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge.
Philadelphia: Printed by
James Carey,
1796. [Price
twenty-five cents.]
8vo. 28 leaves collating in fours.
Richard Watson, 1737-1816, Bishop of Llandaff. This work was originally published in London in 1776. Carey’s edition is the
second of three American editions published in 1796. As an antidote to Gibbon’s fifteenth chapter the
Apology was extremely popular and frequently reprinted.
[1651]
3.
Watson’s Apology for the Bible.
WATSON,
Richard.
An Apology for the Bible, in a series of letters, addressed to Thomas Paine, author of a book entitled, The Age of Reason,
Part the Second, being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology. By R. Watson, D.D. F.R.S. . . .
Philadelphia: Printed by
James Carey,
1796.
8vo. 41 leaves collating in fours.
Signed at the end R. Landaff, Calgarth Park, Jan. 20, 1796. This edition is the
eighth of ten editions published in America in 1796.
[1652]
4.
The Bible needs no apology. by Humphreys.
HUMPHREYS,
Daniel.
The Bible needs no apology: or Watson’s System of Religion refuted; and the advocate proved an unfaithful one, by the Bible
itself: of which a short view is given, and which itself gives, a short answer to Paine: in Four Letters, on Watson’s Apology
for the Bible, and Paine’s Age of Reason, Part the Second.
[
Portsmouth:] Printed by
Charles Peirce, for
Samuel Larkin, at the Portsmouth Bookstore,
1796.
