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BROWN (John): - A Compendious View of Natural and Revealed Religion. In Seven Books.... The Second Edition, carefully revised and improved with the Author's Last Additions and Corrections.

Edinburgh: Printed by Murray & Cochrane, Sold by James Gillies and Andrew Macaulay..., 1796 8vo (in 4s), pp. xxii, 550, contemporary calf (worn, rubbed, dried); browned throughout' ex-library with library label of the "Circulating Library of the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky" on the front paste-down end-paper, library stamp on black leaf before title-page and over imprint on title-page. With the contemporary autograph "W. Wallace" on the recto of the front free end-paper, with one annotation (on brute animals) in ink in what appears to be his hand. John Brown of Haddington (1722 - 1787) first published this work in 1782; he is best-known for his two biblical commentaries, The Self-Interpreting Bible (1778) and A Dictionary of the Holy Bible (1769). ESTC distinguishes between two issues of this second edition, as above, T165155 (E, AWn; MBAt, MH-AH, ViRUT); and T14407, without the names of Gillies and Macaulay in the imprint (L, ABu, C, Gu, O, SAN; IU, PPiPT).
GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 256.5 US$ 278.59 | JP¥ 43394] Book number 5089

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