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Bibliographic Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature

Chapter 49: JOSEPH BUTLER BISHOP OF DURHAM (1692-1752)
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The book presents concise bibliographical essays on one hundred significant works of English literature, summarizing authorship, publication histories, typographical features, editional variants, and illustration and collation details. A prefatory explanation outlines the selection criteria and editorial practices used for handling early spelling and printing peculiarities. Individual entries vary in length depending on existing scholarship and rarity, and the volume includes a list of corrections, a contents list, and an index to aid reference. Overall, it documents the physical and textual histories of landmark volumes to assist readers in identifying and understanding important variant issues.

JOSEPH BUTLER

BISHOP OF DURHAM
(1692-1752)

44. The | Analogy | Of | Religion, | Natural and Revealed, | [Six lines] By | Joseph Butler, L.L.D. Rector of | Stanhope, in the Biſhoprick of Durham. | [Quotation] London: | Printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, at the | Crown in Ludgate Street. MDCCXXXVI.

The Analogy ran into edition after edition, and is reprinted even now. "Few productions of the human mind," Allibone tells us, "have elicited the labours of so many learned commentators as have employed their talents in the exposition of Butler's Analogy." He gives seventeen editions with commentaries, printed before 1858. In recent times no less a name than that of Gladstone may be counted among the number.

The Knaptons were the publishers of Butler's first printed volume, Fifteen Sermons, 1726.

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Collation:  5 ll., x, 11-320 pp.