8vo. [12], xx, 282 [i.e.268], 285-483pp, [1]. Complete despite erratic pagination. Contemporary blind-panelled sprinkled calf, contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece. Slightly rubbed and marked with a scuff to upper board, short split to upper joint at head and slight cracking to lower joint. Spotting and browning to endpapers, otherwise internally clean and crisp.

The first edition of a defence of Christian prophecy by Edward Chandler (1666-1750), Bishop of Durham, written in answer to the Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion (1724) published the previous year by Anthony Collins (1676-1729). Within, Chandler argues so far as to purport that several prophecies in the Old Testament were quite literally fulfilled by Christ. Collins would respond to his attackers, singling out Chandler's work most of all, in his Scheme of Literal Prophecy Considered (1727).