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Observations On The Conversion And Apostleship Of St Paul. In A Letter To Gilbert West Esq. by Lyttelton, George Lord - 1747

by Lyttelton, George Lord

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Observations On The Conversion And Apostleship Of St Paul. In A Letter To Gilbert West Esq. by Lyttelton, George Lord - 1747

Observations On The Conversion And Apostleship Of St Paul. In A Letter To Gilbert West Esq.

by Lyttelton, George Lord

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Printed for R Dodsley in Pall Mall and sold by M Cooper in Pater Noster Row , 1747. 1st edition.. Hardback. Modern cloth, VG. 80pp, small 4yo, a near fine copy, rebound at the John Rylands Library. 'Lyttelton' has been added in ink to the spine. The imprint is spurious - this edition is in fact a pirate copy, the true R Dodsely printing having 110pp. An extremely popular religious work, to which Dr Johnson conceded, 'infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer' to it. George Lyttelton, First Baron Lyttelton [ 1709 - 1773 ] Whig politician, poet & patron of the arts, Lyttleton being on good terms with Pope, Thompson & Fielding. His two great passions Patriotism to England & Epic Verse. Up until the publication of this work in 1747 he had kept his religious beliefs to himself but upheavals in his personal life may have inspired him to seek solace in religion. ESTCN 10129.
  • Bookseller Eastleach Books GB (GB)
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  • Edition 1st edition.
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Printed for R Dodsley in Pall Mall and sold by M Cooper in Pater Noster Row
  • Date Published 1747
  • Keywords religion, christianity, st paul, hagiography

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A Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of the Christian Church (1800) [bound with] The Trial of the Witnesses (1799) [bound with] An Essay on the Church (1800) [bound with] Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul (1799)

by Stevens, William; Anon.; Jones, W. (Rev.); Lyttelton, George Lord

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London: F. and C. Rivington. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1799. Hardcover. Heavy rubbing to edges of boards with loss of paper. Quite heavy rubbing to leather at edges and ends of spine and corners of boards. Some rubbing to edges of spine and boards. Hinges intact.; Four tracts bound in one volume. Pagination: vi, (7)-48; 144; xv, [1], 123, [1] + [2] advertisements; [iv], 126 + [2] advertisements. Half-Calf and marbled papered boards. Spine title: "Tracts". Page dimensions: 175 x 104mm. Owner's signature: "R. B. Willis" [Robert Bruce Willis, Brasenose College, Oxford].; 12mo .
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