Author:
Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846), Prebendary of Durham, theologian and poet, member of the Clapham Sect [Cadell & Davies, booksellers, Strand, London]
Publication details:
24 December 1817; Yoxall Lodge.
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'.
