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A bound collection of pamphlets, containing various publications from 1749 to 1753, as described below. General title page reads : ____________ Essays moral and miscellaneous. By the Reverend Dr. Fortescue, Fellow of Exeter College.__ Oxford : Printed for W. Owen, near Temple ? bar, M Cooper and R. Baldwin in Pater ? noster Row. MDCCLIV ( 1754 )________ Contains : (1) Science; a poem, (in a religious view) on it's decline and revival. With a particular regard to the mission of Moses, and the coming of the Messiah. Oxford: printed for J. Fletcher; and sold by M. Cooper and W. Owen (London); and J. Leake (Bath), 1751. iii(1), 21 pp. First edition_____________. (2) [Fortescue, James.] Science: an epistle on it's decline and revival. With a particular view to the seats of learning, and a virtuous, philosophical life. Oxford: printed for J. Fletcher; and sold by M. Cooper and W. Owen, 1750. iv, 36 pp. Complete. First edition.___________ (3) [Fortescue, James.] An essay on sacred harmony. London: printed for W. Owen; M. Cooper; and R. Baldwin, 1753. (2), 43-58, 17-18 pp. First edition. In verse. A continuation of item (e), below. Two pages misnumbered but complete._____________________ (4) [Fortescue, James.] Essay the second: on sacred harmony. London: printed for W. Owen; M. Cooper; and R. Baldwin, 1754. (2), 19-31, 75-90 - 49 pp. First edition. In verse. A further continuation. Some pages have been misnumbered, but complete_________________ (5) Fortescue, James. Essays moral and miscellaneous. Viz. An introductory speech from Solomon, with an ode. A vision on a plan of ther ancients. A sketch of life after the manners of the moderns. The state of man; his passions, their object, and end; their use, abuse, regulation, and employment. With a poem sacred to the memory of the Princes of Wales, and of Orange. . . . Part I . London: printed for R. Baldwin, 1752. vi, 42 pp. First edition. Entirely in verse. ____________ (6) [Fortescue, James.] A view of life in its several passions. With a preliminary discourse on moral writing. London: printed for M. Cooper; and sold by W. Owen; J. Fletcher (Oxford); and J. Leake (Bath), 1749. vii ( 1 ), 9 ? 23 pp First edition. A poem in rhymed couplets __________ James Fortescue (1716-1777) was a Church of England clergyman, author and fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.___________ Original full calf binding, rubbed, hinges cracked but holding, lacks spine label. Internally very clean. In spite of several misnumbered pages all items are complete. ESTC has two items by Fortescue with this general title, but both are much smaller collections. This particular collection not in ESTC. Scarce. Seller Inventory # 000062
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