Addresses to the Deity. The third edition.

Small 8vo. xx, [ii], 232 pp. Original full dark navy blue straight-grained morocco, gilt Greek-key tooling surround, five raised bands, elaborate gilt compartments, all edges gilt. Very good +. With a fine fore-edge painting under the gilt showing "Christchurch in Hampshire (here James Fordyce lived)," inscribed in the artist's hand (note somewhat unusual handwriting style and the use of parenthesis). With an early typed note, in ALL CAPS, relating to the painting (take note of the sheet being hand-outlined in red). The artist possibly copied the engraving "Christchurch, Hampshire" from the print by E. Finden after a picture by W. Westall, published in Great Britain Illustrated, 1830. This view shows the single rowboat in the foreground similar to the image with this fore-edge painting. Artist unknown; painted ca. 1900-1955. This scene is delicately and skillfully painted. The painting suggests early 20th century work, though it is not signed and there is not yet any artist's identify known or compiled for this person. Very finely painted view. "Fordyce's delivery and gestures were studied, and he drew crowds to Monkwell Street. His topics were didactic, but he also satisfied cultured tastes, and dealt with the ethics of actual life. David Garrick was impressed; Fordyce associated with Samuel Johnson, and introduced him to Blair. He gave sympathetic account in Addresses to the Deity, 1785, of Johnson's religious character, speaking as an evangelical moderate." [DNB].

Product Info

Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, by G.R. Clarke, 1801.

Year: 1801

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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