Small octavo contemporary calf with double gilt rule to covers on 5 raised bands with damaged spine label (top cover very tenuously held/tips worn/leather scratched) [48]pp prelims +258pp (recte 256 as numbers 65&66 are missed out but text & catchword follow on). Newer endpapers, prelims and towards the end with mainly marginal dampmarks. *Written "in Answer to a Treatise lately Translated out of French, Entitled, Five Letters concerning the Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures". Text in English with quotations and examples in Latin, Greek & Hebrew with printed marginal notes. This second edition, "with amendments, and a new preface, wherein the antiquity of the Pentateuch is asserted, and vindicated from some late objections" (WING L3331).