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Full title - A VIEW OF THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. IN THREE PARTS. PART I. OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY, AND WHEREIN IT IS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE EVIDENCE ALLEGED FOR OTHER MIRACLES. PART II. OF THE AUXILIARY EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. PART III. A BRIEF CONSIDERATION OF SOME POPULAR OBJECTIONS. BY WILLIAM PALEY, M.A. ARCHDEACON OF CARLISLE. THREE VOLUMES IN ONE. Collates as [fp], [ffep], i-iv, [4], 13-387, [1], [rp] with text pagination matching OCLC citation. Hardcover: H 17cm x L 11cm. Appears to be a contemporary full leather binding with stamped borders to boards; boards scuffed with some staining and several surface burrows; board corners bumped; shallow wear to spine ends; small loss to spine's black title label which is laid within an incised compartment (an unusual feature for an American binding of the era and, with more research, could perhaps be attributed to a specific shop); spine label's gilt lettering dulled but discernable. Old numbered bookplate (but without a name) presented within front pastedown; antiquarian ink ownership signature "J.H. Abbott" at top of front free endpaper; per a gutter stub rear free endpaper is missing; old pencil writing on page 387's blank verso and opposing rear pastedown; toning/foxing throughout with some stains and a few creased corners. Binding is firm. A theological work by British Anglican clergyman William Paley (1743-1805) which was first published in London in 1794 with page iii-iv essay to dedicatee James Yorke, Lord Bishop of Ely. Two American editions were issued in 1795 - this Boston Manning & Loring imprint and a Philadelphia edition printed by Thomas Dobson. Although it is unknown which American printer was first to pirate A VIEW OF THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY, it is interesting to note that the Philadelphia edition emulated the 443 pagination of the 1794 London edition whereas the 387 page Boston does not align with any OCLC citations for earlier London or Dublin copies so, more than likely, it was an independent typeset. Dobson probably issued his Philadelphia edition as a speculative venture, a circumstance allowed by Philadelphia being the publishing center of the young country and its printers/booksellers having better distribution to the southern states than their New York and Boston colleagues (Thomas Jefferson owned a Philadelphia copy which remains in the Library of Congress). On a further note, Boston printers William Manning and James Loring seem to have secured orders in advance as the named associates in their imprint were all established Boston booksellers - Samuel Hall, William Spotswood, James White, the renowned Isaiah Thomas and partner Ebenezer Turrell Andrews, David West, Ebenezer Larkin, William Pynson Blake, and John West.