WOLLASTON, WILLIAM

The religion of nature delineated

      London reprinted, 1724. Second edition, 4to, pp. 218; woodcut vignette on title showing a printer in a tri-cornered hat at work at a press, 5 woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials; neat early 2" tape repair in blank gutter margin of title, else good and sound in full contemporary paneled calf perfunctorily rebacked. Benjamin Franklin worked as typesetting for the third edition of this book (1725) which inspired his own "little metaphysical piece," A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, London, 1725. It has always been tempting, however unlikely, to ascribe the errata on the last page in this second edition to Franklin: "These [errata] are such as were collected in haste, but there are more; primarily in respect of Greek and Hebrew letters, accents, points, &c. and perhaps things of greater importance: tho it is hoped only such as a reader may easily correct or will readily forgive.