Discourses on the Evidence of Revealed Religion. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1794. [with:] Discourses Relating to The Evidences of Revealed Religion: Delivered in Philadelphia, 1796; and Published at the Request of Many of the Hearers. Philadelphia, Printed. London:, Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1796. [with:] Discourses Relating to the Evidences of Revealed Religion. Vol. III. Being the Second Delivered at Philadelphia in 1797ÉPhiladelphia Printed. London: Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1799

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This set was once owned by John Stephens (1948-2006), scholar-bookseller and co-editor of the Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, who was working on a bibliography of Priestley at the time of his death, and much of the bibliographical information above comes from him. Three volumes, octavo. xvi, 420, [8, catalogue of books published by Priestley and published by Johnson]; xxii, [2], 375; [2], [xi]-xii, [iii]-x (contents bound before preface in this copy), 479, [1] pp Early to mid-nineteenth-century purple moiré cloth, olive paper spine labels, edges sprinkled red. Backstrips faded. In Volume II, A4 is cancelled, with a textual change , noted on an inserted slip. Also loosely inserted are Xeroxes of variant title-pages to Volumes 2 and 3, supplied from the Bodleian library copies. a very good set. Priestley published three sets of Discourses, the first in London (1794), and the second and third in Philadelphia (1796 and 1797), after his emigration to the United States in 1794. The two Philadelphia sets were in turn reprinted in London, but to create the appearance of a three-volume set, the title-pages were altered. The present set includes the following: (l) First series: the original edition of 1794 (A variant title-page labeling it Vol. 1 appeared, probably in 1799); (2) Second series: the original London reprint: a similar variant title-page was substituted probably in 1799; (3) Third series: the original London reprint of 1799. (See John Lancaster, “The Transatlantic Printing History of Priestley’s ‘Discourses Relating to the Evidences of Revealed Religion’ 1794-99” in Essays in Honor of James Edward Walsh (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 221-230).…

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Discourses on the Evidence of Revealed Religion. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1794. [with:] Discourses Relating to The Evidences of Revealed Religion: Delivered in Philadelphia, 1796; and Published at the Request of Many of the Hearers. Philadelphia, Printed. London:, Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1796. [with:] Discourses Relating to the Evidences of Revealed Religion. Vol. III. Being the Second Delivered at Philadelphia in 1797ÉPhiladelphia Printed. London: Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1799
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Priestley, Joseph.
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