JOSEPH BUTLER
BISHOP OF DURHAM
(1692-1752)
44. The | Analogy | Of | Religion, | Natural and Revealed, | [Six lines] By | Joseph Butler, L.L.D. Rector of | Stanhope, in the Biſhoprick of Durham. | [Quotation] London: | Printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, at the | Crown in Ludgate Street. MDCCXXXVI.
The Analogy ran into edition after edition, and is reprinted even now. "Few productions of the human mind," Allibone tells us, "have elicited the labours of so many learned commentators as have employed their talents in the exposition of Butler's Analogy." He gives seventeen editions with commentaries, printed before 1858. In recent times no less a name than that of Gladstone may be counted among the number.
The Knaptons were the publishers of Butler's first printed volume, Fifteen Sermons, 1726.
Quarto
Collation: 5 ll., x, 11-320 pp.
THOMAS PERCY
BISHOP OF DROMORE
(1729-1811)
45. Reliques | Of | Ancient English Poetry: | [Five lines] Volume The First. | [Vignette with the words] Durat Opus Vatum. | London: | Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall. | MDCCLXV.