The Works of Dr. John Eachard, Late Master of Catharine-Hall, Cambridge. in Three Volumes. Consisting of The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy; His Dialogues on the Writings of Mr. Hobbs, and Other Tracts. A New Edition, with a Second D…

Complete in three volumes. 23, [3], iv, 296; [12], 228; [4], xxviii, 246 [2 (ad leaf)] pp. 12mo. Contemporary full leather, gilt-ruled and numbered spines with red morocco label. The most complete edition of Eachard's works. Edited by Thomas Davies, a reissue of his two-volume 1772 edition with cancel titles to all volumes, the second and third volumes here entitled A Compleat Collection of the Works of John Eachard. The new material includes Davies' Some Account, which has been added to the first volume, as well as the entirety of volume III, comprising the Second Dialogue which had been published separately in 1673 but not included in any previous edition of Eachard's collected works. John Bowle (Hobbes and His Critics, London 1951) calls the Dialogues "one of the most effective of all the [contemporary] attacks on Hobbes." Eachard was primarily known as a satirist and was praised by John Dryden and used as a source by Lord Macaulay, though Jonathan Swift pointed out that his serious writings were no better than the ones he ridiculed. ESTC online (May, 2007) locates 9 copies, of which four (Boston Public, Yale, Library of Congress, and Union Theological Seminary) are in the United States.