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Author: Paley, William
Title: A View of the Evidences of Christianity
Place Published: Dublin
Publisher:J. Milliken
Date Published: 1794
Description:

xii, 664 pp. (8vo) 20x12 cm (8x5") period full tree calf, re-backed with original spine strip laid down, red leather spine label lettered in gilt. First Dublin Edition.

First published in London the same year. "Paley's Evidences was the first divinity treatise for all students. It is the epitome of eighteenth-century theological reasoning; rational, empirical, it seeks to demonstrate the truth of the Christian religion by reference to physical phenomena...He rests his case on 'the necessity, in each particular case, of an intelligent designing mind for the contriving and determining of the forms which organized bodies bear.'" (Printing and the Mind of Man). PMM 245a (for London edition).

Wear and rubbing to binding with a few abraded areas on top board; some staining/toning to endpapers, interior solid; very good.