Autograph Letter Signed ('T: Gisborne.') to Messrs Cadell & Davies.

8vo, 2 pp. Bifolium. Thirty-four lines of text. Clear and complete. Good, on aged and lightly-stained paper. An informative letter, casting light on the relation between publisher and author in Georgian England. Gisborne's aim is to give 'information respecting some employment which, if it please God, I shall have for one of your Presses'. He has in mind 'a little Volume [...] in large 8vo. like my works in general [...] such a book as Mr. Coopers letters [...] Its Title is, "The testimony of natural Theology to Christianity'. He feels that Paley's 'Natural Theology' is 'admirable so far as it goes', but that it 'stops very repeatedly short of embracing & discussing the whole of Natural Theology'. His plan is to 'begin where he leaves off'. All but the 'concluding chapter' of the book is finished', and 'a copier is beginning a clear MS for the Printer', so that 'a sufficient portion [...] is likely to be at your command after the holidays.' It is 'premature on my part to say more' until 'you have seen the work & can judge a little for yourselves of it & of the times'. Suggests 'an edition of 1000'. Gisborne's book was published by Cadell & Davies in 1818, and went through at least three editions.