A Learned Dissertation upon Old Women, Male and Female, Spiritual and Temporal, in All Ages, Whether in Church, State, or Exchange-Alley ... To Which is Added an Essay upon the Present Union of the Whig-Chiefs.

Thomas Gordon

 London : Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1720

[Whig British Political Pamphlet] 3rd ed. (The first was printed the same year). Hardcover. Rebound in modern cloth. 19 cm. 31 pages.  According to DNB, Thomas Gordon (d. 1750) was a Scottish-born pamphletist who wrote on the Bangorian controversy.  The advertisement at the rear states, "In the Second Part of the learned Dissertation, will be considered the reasons, why Old Women are suffered to educate our Youth..." 

  Blind stamp of William Thomas Morgan, Bloomington, Indiana. Morgan was a professor of European and British political history at IU in the early 20th century.  "Bolingbroke observed, upon hearing of Conyers Middleton's death at the same time as Gordon's, 'Then there is the best writer in England gone and the worst.'"