The Original and Institution of Civil Government, Discuss'd

by Benjamin Hoadly

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First edition

First edition. 2 , xiv, 200, 204, 11, 1 pp. 8vo. Contemporary panelled calf, head of spine chipped. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Item #372056 First edition of an important work of Whig political thought. Standing with Trenchard and Gordon as early eighteenth-century 'preceptors of civil liberty' was the liberal Anglican bishop, Benjamin Hoadly ... in the colonies he was widely held to be one of the

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