8vo. xv, [1], 144pp. Early decorative wrappers bound in. Modern orange cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Heavy chipping to edges, leaves browned.

An early essay on 'inspiration', or the arguments for the words of the Scriptures as 'god-breathed', or divinely imparted, by English Scholar and Dissenter Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801), inscribed to 'The Lover of the Gospel, and the Friend of Mental Liberty'. Wakefield's successful career as a radical pamphleteer did not truly begin for another decade, but in his early essays and sermons the sparks of later compositions can be seen.