8vo. xxxi, [1], 267pp, [1], 55pp, [7]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary blind-panelled speckled calf. Rubbed and marked, with surface wear to boards, foot of upper joint split. FEP sprung. Inked ownership inscription of J. Seale to head of title, leaves lightly browned, light scattered spotting.

The first edition of a series of proposals on hospitals, theological colleges, and schools, composed by English lay religious writer and nonjuror Robert Nelson (1656-1715). Nelson, a much-published author of religious writings - on several occasions, by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge - also wrote a Life of George Bull, Bishop of S. Davids from 1705 till 1710.