[Rarebooks] FS:Toland's DRUIDS

[Deborah Thornton Pendleton]

For Your Consideration.
TOLAND, John. A CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE CELTIC RELIGION AND LEARNING; 
OR, THE PRIESTS AND JUDGES, OF THE VAIDS, OR THE DIVINERS AND 
PHYSICIANS; AND OF THE BARDS, OR THE POETS AND HERALDS; OF THE ANCIENT 
GAULS, BRITONS, IRISH AND SCOTS. WITH THE HISTORY OF THE ABARIS, THE 
HYPERBORIAN, PRIEST OF THE SUN. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ABSTRACT OF THE 
LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. London: Published by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, 
and Co., [n.d.]. 8vo in old worn boards; 254pp. Moderate foxing 
throughout. Old former owner's names on title page and front free 
endpaper. Set forth as letters to the Right Honourable The Lord Viscount 
Molesworth, the last being dated by the author 1719. Includes "Mr. 
Tate's Questions, about the Druids, and other British Antiquities; with 
Mr. Jones's Answer to them;" "Vocabularium Armorico-Hibernicum;" and "A 
Specimen of the Armorican Language" at rear. The title page indicates 
inclusion of "The History of the Abaris...Priest of the Sun." No 
information on this is included in this book. [A NUC search located a 
similar copy, noting that it does not contain the History of Abaris, at 
OCI only. NUC listings for this title and publisher give publication 
dates "1740-1749?" and "1810-1819?"]. Moderate foxing throughout. John 
Toland (1670-1722), a prolific writer and thinker and often a critic of 
ecclesiastical institutions, coined the word "Pantheism" to describe a 
nature-oriented religion "the pantheistic opinion of those who believe 
in no other eternal being but the universe," and modern Druidic 
societies trace their origin to what they view as his founding of the 
Ancient Druid Order in 1717. His first and most famous work is 
"Christianity not Mysterious." $300


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