Sm. 8vo. 232 leaves, collating in fours.
Not in Lowndes.
Jessop, page 120.
Rebound in red morocco by the Library of Congress in 1903, initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
William Dudgeon, 1706-1743, Scottish philosophical writer. This is a collective edition of his works, chiefly on the deistic controversy.
[1285]
J. 49
History of the man after god’s own heart.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 57. no. 47, as above.
[ANNET,
Peter.]
The life of David: or, The history of the man after God’s own heart . . .
London: for
T. Coote, and
J. Waller,
1772.
BS580 .D3 A6
12mo. 76 leaves, collating in sixes.
Halkett and Laing III, 86.
Lowndes I, 48.
Bound in red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Peter Annet, 1693-1769, English deistical writer, and a member of the Robinhood Society (see no. 419), is the supposed author of this work suggested by Voltaire’s
Saul
. The work has also been ascribed to Archibald Campbell (the author given by Halkett and Laing) and to John Noorthouck. The
first edition appeared in 1761.
The Robinhood Society was a debating club which met every Monday evening at the Robin Hood and Little John in Butcher Row, St. Clements, London. (See no. 419.)
John Noorthouck, 1740?-1816, English author. For his reputed authorship of The Man after God's own Heart, see John Russell Smith’s Book Catalogue, London, April, 1852.
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Blount’s miscellaneous works.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 55. no. 48, as above.
BLOUNT,
Charles.
The Miscellaneous Works of Charles Blount, Esq; containing I. The Oracles of Reason, &c. II. Anima Mundi . . . III. Great is Diana of the Ephesians . . . IV. An Appeal
from the Country to the City for the Preservation of his Majesties Person, Liberty and Property, and the Protestant Religion.
V. A just Vindication of Learning, and the Liberty of the Press. VI. A supposed Dialogue betwixt the late King James and King
William on the Banks of the Boyne, the Day before that famous Victory. To which is prefixed the Life of the Author, and an
Account and Vindication of his Death. With the Contents of the whole Volume.
[
London] Printed in the year
1695.
AC6 .B5
First Collected Edition. 12mo. 270 leaves; the
Dialogue at the end in verse.
Lowndes I, 221.
STC B3296.
Hazlitt II, 52.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I in the first alphabet; a line of
text crossed out in ink on page 227. Badly waterstained and foxed throughout.
Charles Blount, 1654-1693, English deist.
The Miscellaneous Works is a posthumous publication, with a preface by Charles Gildon.
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Peel’s Truth & Reason.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 58. no. 106, as above.
PEEL,
Joshua.
Truth and Reason: or, A Fair Investigation of many of those things which keep them in the shade; delivered in a course of
Theological Lectures . . . By Joshua Peel . . . Copy-right secured. Peel Brook, Bedford County, Virginia: the 29th year of American Independence.
Fincastle: Botetourt County. Printed: by
David Amen, n.d. [1805].
BL2773 .P4
