Waterland, Daniel

A Critical History of the Athanasian Creed. Representing the Opinions of Antients and Moderns Concerning It: With an Account of the Manuscripts, Versions, and Comments, and such other particulars as are of moment for the determining the Age, and Author, a

      Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press,, 1724.. First edition.. 1/4 calf modern brown marbled pasteboard covers. Banded, with gilt lettering on spine.Names of previous owners on verso of f.f.e.p.. 4to.. Waterland, Daniel, 1683-1740, theologian, "his OCritical History of the Athanasian CreedO (Cambridge, 8vo), in which, upon an exhaustive review of the then accessible evidence, he assigned that symbol to the decade 430-40, and its composition to St. Hilary of Arles. The importance of the work was at once recognised, and a second edition was issued in 1728. ESTC t111484. Lowndes 2852.