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New York: J. Emory and B. Waugh. Good+. 1832. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full leather boards are very rubbed with wear and bare patches to corners. Outer hinges cracked. Moderate foxing throughout. ; Tight binding. No notes or handwriting inside.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 226 pages .

New York: American Tract Society. Fair with no dust jacket. 1880. Hardcover. Black cloth binding rubbed at extremities; spine ends & corners frayed; backstrip cloth split along gutters; tape residue to backstrip & inside board edges; front hinge cracked, though textblock tight; owner's name inked on front paste-down; owner's stamp on front endpaper & back paste-down; pencilled note on rear endpaper; leaf edges & some leaves foxed. No dj. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 222 pages .

American Tract Society. Good with no dust jacket. ca 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Green hardcover with gold lettering. Possibly no publication date in item. Scarce if not rare. Item now in archival sleeve to preserve and protect condition. Our photo's/scans are of the actual item being sold, not a borrowed image! We provide tracking and ship daily or next business day!; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 222 pages .

London: F.C.& J. Rivington, 1819. 142, i blank. Watson was Bishop of Llandaff, Wales and Professor of Divinity Cambridge. An original binding.17cms. a new Edition. Hard Cover. V.g.. 12mo.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cambridge: Hillard & Brown. Very Good. 1828. Hardcover. The first edition was published in 1796. Clean black blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Text tight, clean & intact. Later part of text with small damp stain on bottom margin only. Corners lightly rubbed. Prior owners signature. Religion ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 173 pages .

London: T. Evans, Paternoster Row, 1796. 385,1 blank, [2]pp ads., octavo, orig. full tree calf, dec. gilt spine, gilt dec. border to the boards, morocco label, joints cracked otherwise a tight copy. Watson was Bishop of Llandaff, Wales and Professor of Divinity Cambridge. An attractive binding.. sixth edition. Hard Cover. V.g.. 8vo.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Newburgh (NY): David Denniston, 1796. First American edition. Leather_bound. Good. 24 mo. in original full tree calf covered boards 232 pp. (text is the first 222 pages in this printing followed by 10 pp. Subscriber List) The ownership signature of one John Kemp appears at the top edge of the first page of text. Bookplate from the private library of Henry F. Clark front pastedown. The binding is well worn about the the spine, especially the edges and has some other spotting here and there on the boards. The text is generally clean without appreciable foxing. Highly popular response and refutation of the second part of Paine's "Age of Reason" and his deist criticism of "revealed religion". One of the first American editions, published the same year as the British. The American edition was published by a number of American printers in 1796 with, we believe, priority undetermined.

London: T. Evans. Bound in brown leather without tile lettering, this 1796 hardcover Seventh Edition is Good. (1V)/120pp with Ten Letters addressed to Tom Paine with theological themes.Front board is tender and partially detached, corners are badly worn, spine and boards rubbed. Fore-edges of both boards chipped. Inscription to Rev. Harmsworth of Eastcheap dated January 1797 on FFEP. Some ink annotations and odd foxing. A few pages curled at corners, missing rear free endpaper. Size is 17cm x 11cm. Condition Good. . Good. Hardcover. Seventh Edition. 1796.

Philadelphia: Printed for W. Young, Mills & Son, No. 52, corner of Second and Chesnut Streets..., 1796. 206pp. Disbound, else Very Good. The Lord Bishop of Landaff's attack on Paine, whose blasphemy he deplores. Evans 31573.

New Brunswick, NJ: Abraham Blauvelt, 1796. Leather_bound. Very Good. 24 mo. in original full calf covered boards but respined in modern brown cloth tape. 201 pp. + verso mprinted advert page for "An Apology For Christianity" + (12 subscriber list). Original endpapers retained, with an ownership signature on the rear pastedown. Another small ownership signature and notation "Maple Shade, NJ" top corner of title page. Embrowning and scattered foxing to the text. (Felcone 2825). Highly popular response and refutation of the second part of Paine's "Age of Reason" and his deist criticism of "revealed religion". One of the first American editions, published the same year as the British. The American edition was published by a number of American printers in 1796 with, we believe, priority undetermined.

Charleston: A.E. Miller, 1825. 171, [1 blank] pp. Bound in contemporary half calf [raised spine bands, gilt-lettered morocco spine label] over marbled boards. Tanned, scattered foxing, Good+. Owner's signature on top margin of title page, 'Miss Harriott L. Post. 1861.' The first South Carolina printing of the Lord Bishop of Landaff's attack on Paine, whose blasphemy he deplores. OCLC 29713517 [3- Georgetown, Duke, U SC]. AI 23228 [3]. Not in Turnbull.

An Apology for the Bible in a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine: by R.Watson, Seventh Edition - 1796, 111 pages; Answer to Payne's Age of Reason With a Short View of the Obedience which Christians are Bound to Yield to the Powers that Be: by David Wilson, 1796, viii, 123 pages; A Letter from a Blacksmith to the Ministers and Elders of the Church of Scotland, By which the Manner or Public Worship in that Church is Considered�Printed for James Anderson, 1826, iv, 38 pages; The Modes of Presbyterian Church-Worship Vindicated in a Letter to the Blacksmith: by a 'Presbyter of Ireland', printed by John Brewster, New Edition - 1826 (originally published 1758), iv, 47 pages; A Reply to the Arguments Adduced by the Irish Presbyter in his Letter to the Blacksmith: Printed for James Anderson, 1826, 22 pages; The Resurrection of Believers, And Christ the Author of it: A Sermon, Preached in St.Cuthbert's Church, on Sabbath, August 19, 1827: by Andrew Thomson, printed for William Whyte & Co, 1827, 51 pages.

Dayton: R.J. Skinner, 1819. Original full brown leather. Covers worn and rubbed. text stained throughout on upper half of pages. Binding firm and tight. Good condition. Old signatures and writing on endpapers from the Alfred Brunson Family, including Alfred Brunson's clearly legible signature on the title page. He was a prominent Methodist circuit rider in Ohio who would eventually settle in Wisconsin and serve in its Territorial Legilsature. THE FIRST ACTUAL BOOK PRINTED IN DAYTON, OHIO. Ohio Imprints 519. The earliest printing in Dayton dates back to 1808 when The Dayton Repertory newspaper was issued. Advertisements exist for a hymnal proposed to be published in 1810 but no copies exist and the hymanl was probably never published. Otherwise there are three pamphlets issued prior to this book. Skinner's 1819 printing of the Watson work at 190 pages and bound in leather is the first actual "book" known to be printed in Dayton.

New York: Printed for T. & J. Swords , 1796. 178 pages, booksellers' advertisement, p. [179], half-title. Small contemporary bookplate of David Goodwin, with his name in ink at title page. additional prior owner name in pencil front end page. Bound in contemporary calf, red label with gilt lettering back, Very Good Minus, joints starting to open at top edges, final blank end page with 1" x 3" chip bottom corner, light to moderate toning throughout. Uncommon in contemporary binding. Evans 31569.. Early American Imprint. Calf. Very Good Minus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: Printed for T. Evans, in Paternoster-Row; Cadell and Davies, and P. Elmsley, in the Strand; J. Debrett, in Picadilly; and J. Robson, and R. Faulder, in Bond-Street, 1796. Half-title, [1]-385, [1, blank], [2, adverts]pp. 12mo. Full polished tree calf; leather spine label and gilt rules. Front joint cracked; front hinge, title-page, and two leaves strengthened and mended with tissue; foxing; good. bcjbs 353813. First edition of Bishop Watson's bitter attack against the second part of Paine's Age of Reason and deism. Watson's defense of the Bible was widely reprinted in America. Like Paine's work, it ran through many editions, well into the nineteenth-century. Seven editions alone were issued in 1796, the first year of its publication. This copy was kept by Nicholas Waln (1742-1818), a Philadelphia Quaker, a member of Benjamin Franklin's Junto, a Library Company director and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Waln signed his name on the title-page. Waln studied law under Joseph… Read More