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Auction archive: Lot number 534

PALEY, William (1743-1805). Autograph manuscript of Sermons on different Subjects , being the texts of sermons preached in various locations between 1782 and 1800, approximately 564 pages, 4to (225 x 190 - 200 x 165mm) , with numerous corrections and...

Auction 28.06.1995
28 Jun 1995
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,392 - US$3,190
Price realised:
£1,840
ca. US$2,934
Auction archive: Lot number 534

PALEY, William (1743-1805). Autograph manuscript of Sermons on different Subjects , being the texts of sermons preached in various locations between 1782 and 1800, approximately 564 pages, 4to (225 x 190 - 200 x 165mm) , with numerous corrections and...

Auction 28.06.1995
28 Jun 1995
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,392 - US$3,190
Price realised:
£1,840
ca. US$2,934
Beschreibung:

PALEY, William (1743-1805). Autograph manuscript of Sermons on different Subjects , being the texts of sermons preached in various locations between 1782 and 1800, approximately 564 pages, 4to (225 x 190 - 200 x 165mm) , with numerous corrections and additions, including inserted leaves, stitched in 35 fascicules, unbound (some leaves rather soiled, some tears, occasionally with slight loss of text); together with 7 leaves of index, and the first sermon (29 pages) written in the hand of the editor George Stephenson, and an autograph letter signed from him to the Bishop of Durham, Bishop Wearmouth, 8 February 1806 , requesting permission to dedicate the first publication to him, one page, folio (soiled and torn); together with 3 other letters from Paley's descendants. These sermons, some of which are annotated with place, usually Bishop Wearmouth, Carlisle, Lincoln etc., and the date when they were delivered, were not originally intended for publication. However a codicil in his will instructed that they should be printed in an edition of 500 copies and be given to his parishioners at Bishop Wearmouth. The work entitled 'Sermons on various Subjects' was printed by James Graham in Sunderland in 1806, and subsequently reprinted. Paley had published in 1785 The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy , again based on his sermons, which was adopted immediately as a text-book at Cambridge, and caused Bentham to publish his Principles of Morals and Legislation . 'Nobody has surpassed Paley as a writer of text-books. He is an unrivalled expositor of plain arguments, though he neither showed not claimed much originality. His morality is one of the best statements of the utilitarianism of the eighteenth century' (DNB).

Auction archive: Lot number 534
Auction:
Datum:
28 Jun 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

PALEY, William (1743-1805). Autograph manuscript of Sermons on different Subjects , being the texts of sermons preached in various locations between 1782 and 1800, approximately 564 pages, 4to (225 x 190 - 200 x 165mm) , with numerous corrections and additions, including inserted leaves, stitched in 35 fascicules, unbound (some leaves rather soiled, some tears, occasionally with slight loss of text); together with 7 leaves of index, and the first sermon (29 pages) written in the hand of the editor George Stephenson, and an autograph letter signed from him to the Bishop of Durham, Bishop Wearmouth, 8 February 1806 , requesting permission to dedicate the first publication to him, one page, folio (soiled and torn); together with 3 other letters from Paley's descendants. These sermons, some of which are annotated with place, usually Bishop Wearmouth, Carlisle, Lincoln etc., and the date when they were delivered, were not originally intended for publication. However a codicil in his will instructed that they should be printed in an edition of 500 copies and be given to his parishioners at Bishop Wearmouth. The work entitled 'Sermons on various Subjects' was printed by James Graham in Sunderland in 1806, and subsequently reprinted. Paley had published in 1785 The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy , again based on his sermons, which was adopted immediately as a text-book at Cambridge, and caused Bentham to publish his Principles of Morals and Legislation . 'Nobody has surpassed Paley as a writer of text-books. He is an unrivalled expositor of plain arguments, though he neither showed not claimed much originality. His morality is one of the best statements of the utilitarianism of the eighteenth century' (DNB).

Auction archive: Lot number 534
Auction:
Datum:
28 Jun 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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