A Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers, Which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church From the Earliest Ages through several successive Centuries. London: R. Manby and H.S. Cox, 1749.

MIDDLETON, Conyers

Beschreibung

This is the reissue of the first 1749 edition with the addition of an 'Introductory Discourse , and with a printer's note that 'the sheets have not had sufficient time to dry', dated: Dec. 12. 1748. PROVENANCE: among the ownership inscriptions are those of Robert Surtees of Mainsforth (d. 1802), and Richard Potter (1817-92) of Stonehouse, Glocs, later chairman of the Great Western Railway, father of the social reformer Beatrice Webb. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 4to, [iv], cxli, [ii], 232, [20] pp., rebound a long time ago in leather-backed plain boards, unlettered spine sunned, various old ownership inscriptions on front endpaper, some marginal reading marks in ink and neat contemporary annotations on pp. cviii, cxxvi, cxxxvii, cxl, 176 and 187, a characterful copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1642051977461

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Titel: A Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers, ...

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