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FIRST EDITION, pp. [ii], xviii, 30, [1, ads], 8vo, disbound
Publication details: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Wilkie...[1775?],
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The drift of this tractate can be gathered from the extended title. Clarke, a graduate of University College, Oxford, was in 1753, appointed as rector of St. Philip's, in South Carolina. He left the colony under something of a shadow in 1759, his comfortable Anglicanism have taken a millenarian turn. A good summary of his career appears in Lyon Tyler's 'The Gnostic Trap', Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 58, No. 2 (June 1989), pp. 146-168. BL and Chicago only in ESTC.The page of advertisements at the end has an unusual feature. Besides listing other works by the author, there is a maniculed plea for the loan, from any Gentleman, of Telsius de Principiis Rerum naturalium, and Strozzi de Doctrina Chaldaeorum, 'as they cannot be found at the Booksellers.'
FIRST EDITION, pp. [ii], xviii, 30, [1, ads], 8vo, disbound
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