Author: GIBBON (Edward). JESSE (William):
Title: Lectures supposed to have been delivered by the Author of A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion [i. e., Soame Jenyns], to a Select Company of Friends. Dedicated to Edward Gibbon, Esq.
Description: Boston [Massachusetts]: Printed by E. Thomas and E. T. Andrews…, 1793. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 202, contemporary sheepskin, red leather label, gilt spine; front joint cracked, but a very good copy, with the bookplate of the "Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy Libray" on the front paste-down end-paper The so-called "Dedication" berates Gibbon for his representation of Christianity in the Decline and Fall. Not in Norton. Evans 25712.

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