Author: NON-CONFORMITY. 4 TRACTS. DE LAUNE (Thomas):
Title: A Plea for the Non-Conformists. In Three Parts. A New Edition Enlarged.
Description: Cambridge, Printed by F. Hodson, for the Editor. 1779 8vo, 208 x 122 mms., pp. [viii], 142, with some annotations in pencil at the end of the Advertisement and next page. BOUND WITH: BICHENO (James): A Glance at The History of Christianity, and of English Nonconformity. Fourth Edition. With additional Notes and a Postscript of the Present Movement in the East. Newbury: Printed and Sold by B. Fuller; Messrs. Johnson...[et al], 1799. 8vo, 208 x 122 mms., pp. [ii], 28. BOUND WITH: ROBINSON (Robert): A Plan of Lectures on the Principles of Nonconformity: for the Instruction of Catechumens. The Eighth Edition. Barlow: Printed by Benjamin Flower..., [no date, ?1790]. 8vo, 208 x 122 mms., pp. 74. BOUND WITH: ROBINSON (Robert): The General Doctrines of Toleration applied to the Particular Case of Free Communion. The Second Edition. Harlow: Printed by Benjamin Blower..., 1805. 8vo, 208 x 122 mms., pp. 57 [58 adverts]. BOUND WITH: PARRY (William): An Inquiry into the Nature and Extent of the Inspiration of the Apostles, and other Writers of the New Testament: Conduction with a View to some Late Opinions on the Subject. London: Printed for the Author and sold by T. Conder..., J. Johnson..., 1797. 8vo, 208 x 122 mms., pp, viii, 64 (lacks half-title and final advert leaf). Five non-conformist tracts in one volume, with a list in a contemporary hand on the front paste-down end-paper, and the inscription "R. Chaffey/ April 5th 1816" on the recto of the blank leaf before the first item. Bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed), red leather label; joints wormed, but binding is secure. De Laume's tract is the earliest to have been printed, appearing in 1704, with 18 further editions in the 18th century; the editor signs the preface "D. F.", apparently Daniel Defoe. The preface to an edition published in in 1706 was the first to be signed "D. Foe," and the work appears in the Defoe canon. However, according to the Advertisement preceding the Preface, "The edition from which this is printed, is that of 1733," but the author of the Advertisement does not identify himself.

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