Author: HURD (Richard):
Title: An Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies Concerning the Christian Church; and, in particular, Concerning the Church of Papal Rome: Preached in Lincoln's-Inn-Chapel, at the Lecture of the Right Reverend William Warburton Lord Bishop of Gloucester. The Second Edition.
Description: London, Printed by W. Bowyer and. J. J. Nichols: For T. Cadell..., 1772. 8vo, 210 x 134 mms., pp. xv [xvi blank], 337 [338 blank, 339 adverts, 340 blank], contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; fore-margin of last few leaves wormed with no loss, joints cracked, top and base of spine chipped. This was the book that led Hurd (1720 - 1808) into a more-or-less friendly debate with Edward Gibbon about the authenticity of the book of Daniel.

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