8vo. [2], ix, [3], 223pp, [1]. Without half-title. Later gilt-tooled sprinkled calf. Lightly rubbed and marked, corners bumped. Later inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, ink-stamp of 'Rich. Hughes' to head of title page, scattered spotting.

An expansion of a sermon preached on St. John the Baptist's day 1755, from the open-air pulpit in the quadrangle of Magdalen College. The author, George Horne (1730-1792), was an English churchman who notably defended the Church of England against other denominations, and a notable friend of Samuel Johnson.