Two Volumes in One octavo near contemporary panelled calf (top cover detached/tips worn) TP+(vi)+232pp; 197pp +catal of books by Goodman & others. Two pages with short marginal tears neither touching text but one with narrow strip of paper loss to margin. With half title separating parts One & Two but through paginated then full titlepage to Part III (with diff. printer but same publisher) In the publisher's catalogue Goodman is given as the author of Winter-evening. The third part was first printed in 1686 for the third edition of the first two parts and here is reprinted for Meredith to augement Meredith's printing of the first two parts for the first time by this publisher (WING 1133+1139). *A philosophical discussion between four friends of differing beliefs including an agnostic, a pious, and a frivolous temperament. In dialogue form.