BERKELEY (BISHOP GEORGE): - Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion, against those who are called Free-Thinkers. The First American, from the Fourth London Edition.
New-Haven [Connecticut], From Sidney's Press, For Increase Cooke & Co., 1803. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 388 [389-390 adverts], contemporary sheepskin, gilt spine, red leather label; text browned and foxed, joints rubbed, binding a little dried. Timothy Dwight, the grandson of Jonathan Edwards, contributes a one-paragraph introduction the work. When one recalls that Berkeley wrote this work while living in Rhode Island in America in the years 1729-1731, the delay in publishing an American edition seems protracted. Keynes 25. Jessop (1973) 125.
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