A Yorkshire-slanted mostly dissenting sammelband which contains an otherwise unrecorded Leeds imprint by ‘John Chapman’ of Ilkley from 1787, and a London sermon on the Lisbon earthquake from 1755 as well as five other imprints.
Unadorned full calf binding from the 1780s, a little scuffed but sound. The collection begins with the Sheffield-born divine and philosopher’s Essay on Redemption followed by an extract from Richard Price’s response to letters from Joseph Priestley. The unrecorded Leeds imprint, John Chapman’s Triumph of Truth follows a title page to another unrecorded Leeds imprint by the same publisher - but that is all that’s present. The book concludes with a Keighley sermon and finally Thomas Gibbons at Haberdashers on the Lisbon earthquake, an earlier imprint than the rest of the book’s contents. Two Yorkshire bibliophiles from the 1780s have asserted their ownership of the pamphlet texts found here: H O Dawson of Baildon near Bradford; John Prior following the gift of ‘H Davy’ and ‘J J’ who passes judgement on Balguy’s contradictory arguments.
1 [John Balguy] An Essay on Redemption being the Second Part of Divine Rectitude, J And H Pemberton, 1741 - browned title page annotated with pamphlet numbers and the name of the otherwise anonymous author; wear to lower outer corner of the title leaf [4] pp104; occasional marginal pen lines drawing attention to sections of text and a terminal pencil note about the text being ‘in my humble opinion... somewhat contradictory to itself. J.J.’
2 [Richard Price] Appendix to Dr Price’s Sermons on the Christian Doctrine... occasioned by Dr Priestley’s Letters to Dr Price, pp369-396 [4] - extracted from a larger volume published by T Cadell whose adverts appear to the rear.
3 The Touchstone of the New Religion: or, Sixty Assertions of Protestants, 1787, Thomas Wright, Leeds - title page only, inscribed on recto with a flourish ’H O Dawson Baildon’ pp [2] Unrecorded
4 John Chapman, The Triumph of truth: or the Protestant Faith Vindicated, 1787, Thomas Wright, Leeds, pp36. Inscribed on the title page ‘J.no Prior’s Book The Gi[ft] of Mr H Davy’; annotation re ‘authority’ (p20); signed in print at the end: ‘John Chapman Ilkley, January 1, 1787.’ Unrecorded
5 T Lillie, A Sermon, Occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Philipps, preached at Keighley, in Yorkshire, July 11, 1784, 1785, Bradford by J Nicholson and Son, p52; a few ink emendations to the text
6 William Ford, A sermon occasioned by the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, 1781, J Buckland; black rimmed title page [4] pp36 ESTC; T075884, Yale, Missouri, Cambs
7 Thomas Gibbons, A Sermon preached at Haberdashers-Hall, November 30th, on occasion of the tremendous Earthquake at Lisbon, November 1, 1755, J Buckland, [4] pp44 with terminal leaf of adverts
