A Key to the Mystery of the Revelation: whereby all it's Dark Meanings, being reduced to one Regular System, are easily accounted for, and explained.

(Bible. Revelation). [Anon.]

Publication details: Printed for W. Goldsmith,1785,

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The explanation of the anonymous author (ESTC rather unhelpfully says 'sometimes attributed to Taylor') turns out to be an attack on the Roman Catholic Church, whose evil ways were prophesied in Revelation, and also 'a new enemy sprung out of her [that is, the Cof E] own bowels, to wit, the presbyterians and sectaries.' This little passage, which gives a flavour of the whole, is on a page marked by a dog-ear. A few other dog-ears have less clear objects. ESTC also gives George Lockhart, 1681-1732, author of Memoirs concerning the Affairs of Scotland, as 'person as subject', but we cannot find the reference. The Fentons were a glass-making family.

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FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, includes the text of Revelation, with one woodcut illustration in the text, text area in 2nd and 3rd gatherings browned, one or two spots and stains, but generally a fresh copy, pp. [i], xviii, 340, [1, Errata], 8vo, contemporary mottled sheep (the publisher's binding was boards, according to the title-page), some loss of leather around the upper joint, possibly insect damage, red lettering piece, circular elegantly printed book-plate inside front cover of Miss Ann Fenton, Carr House, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, and 'God is Love' presumably in her hand on a flyleaf, good

Bibliography: (ESTC T155172, locating copies in Cambridge, Whitchurch, Rector's Library, and U Penn; COPAC adds BL)

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