[Rarebooks] FS: Baskerville Press Robert Barclay AN APOLOGY FOR THE TRUE CHRISTIAN DIVINITY in original boards, 1765

[Charles Agvent]

(BASKERVILLE PRESS) BARCLAY, Robert. AN APOLOGY FOR THE TRUE CHRISTIAN 
DIVINITY, BEING AN EXPLANATION AND VINDICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES AND 
DOCTRINES OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 
1765. First Edition. The First Baskerville Edition and the Eighth 
overall. Quarto (9-7/8" x 12-1/2") bound in original blue paper-covered 
boards with light green paper backing, uncut and mostly unopened; [12], 
[ii]-xiii, [2], 504, [18] pages. Gaskell 30 describes that the errata 
leaf is frequently missing. This copy has two examples of the errata 
leaf, one with a Phillips & Fardon imprint as part of the preliminaries 
and the other at the end of the text without an imprint. DICTIONARY OF 
NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY: "Barclay's great book, The Apology, is remarkable as 
the standard exposition of the principles of his sect, and is not only 
the first defense of those principles by a man of trained intelligence, 
but in many respects one of the most impressive theological writings of 
the century." Old bookseller description pasted to the top of the front 
pastedown which has evidence of a bookplate removal; ink number "5196" 
at the top corner of the verso of the front endpaper; mild spotting 
toward the beginning but mostly very clean. Light wear along spine edges 
and tips, no spine label present or evidence there was one; light wear 
to corners and top edge. Near Fine. (#019815)        $1,500

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