Letters to a Friend concerning the Septuagint Translation, and the Heathen Mythology.

SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT. SPEARMAN, ROBERT.

Verlag: Edinburgh for A Kinkaid & J Bell and A Donaldson, 1759

Beschreibung

8vo, pp viii, 495, [1], bound in 19th Century black morocco backed cloth, spine gilt panelled within raised bands, a fine clean copy, FIRST EDITION, GREVILLE EWING'S COPY, with his signature to the title page and note of authorship. Spearman, a pupil of Hutchinson and follower of his teacher's philosophy, wrote this anonymous treatise as 'an attempt to derive all mythologies from a primeval revelation' - this according to DNB, who describe its author as 'eccentric', his writings 'rambling speculations.' Not, evidently beneath the contempt of Greville Ewing, the great Scottish congregational minister who died in 1841. The binding of this copy seems to post-date him,and bears the bookplate of William Bickford-Smith, whose obituary notice '[His] library was one of the finest private libraries in the West of England. Mr. Bickford-Smith was a great student and lover of books, and the shelves were filled with thousands of rare and costly volumes .' .this is surely one of them. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 29571

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Titel: Letters to a Friend concerning the ...

Verlag: Edinburgh for A Kinkaid & J Bell and A Donaldson

Erscheinungsdatum: 1759

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition