The Contrast, Vol 1 (1791) by Anne Forster Berkeley, wife of Bishop Berkeley ~against Freethinkers ~letters to Rev. Adam Gordon of Hinxworth

Title: The Contrast; Or, an Antidote Against the pernicious Principles disseminated in the Letters of the late Earl of Chesterfield; being The Correspondence of an eminent Person, deceased, with the Editor, during a Course of Years. ''By this, Though dead, She yet speaketh.''| To which are added Anniversary Addresses from a Father to His Son. By the Rev. Sir Adam Gordon, Bart. M. A. Rector of Hinxworth, Herts. - Vol. I.

Author: [Anne Forster Berkeley] / Rev. Adam Gordon, Rector of Hinxworth [editor]

Description: Volume I only. Full leather with gilt title on spine; gilt ruled borders; dentelle. Spine scuffed; corners lightly worn. Starting crack to inner front hinge. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Interior is clean with some occasional light foxing. pp. [2], (3)-271.

A volume of letters by Anne Berkeley (c. 1707-1786), wife of philosopher Bishop Berkeley (George Berkeley), addressed to Adam Gordon (c. 1745-1817). The matter includes her arguments against the free-thinkers, who here husband also attacked, and references Shaftesbury, Hume, Voltaire, Bolingbroke, and Rousseau. In addition to addressing various theological and philosophical matters, Anne largely waxes upon the importance of Christian education and morality. According to the Berkeley scholar Stefan Gordon Storrie, Anne's correspondence here started around 1764, when Anne was approaching her sixties and Adam Gorden was still a young man.

Volume I is divided into two parts: [a] the Preface by the editor, Rev. Adam Gordon, Rector of Hinxworth, which is dated December 18, 1790; and [b] 31 of the 41 letters by Anne Berkeley.

[For reference, Volume II, which is not offered, included [a] the final ten letters by Anne, [b] the ''Anniversary Addresses from a father to his son, on his birthday,'' by Adam Gordon, and [c] ''Six letters to a Lady of Quality,'' by the historian and Christian mystic, Nathaniel Hooke.]

Binding: Leather Bound Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly.
Place: London
Year: 1791

Keywords: Bishop Berkeley, George Berkeley, Ann Berkeley, correspondence, free-thinkers,