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UNREOCRDED. NOT IN ESTC OR OCLC. Thomas Broughton’s An historical dictionary of all religions from the creation of the world to this present time was published in two volumes by Osbourne and Shipton in London in 1756. The work is a re-issue of Broughton’s large folio volume Bibliotheca historico-sacra, or, An historical library of the principal matters relating to religion, antient and modern (1737–9) which was also reissued as a single volume in 1742 as An Historical Dictionary of All Religions, from the Creation of the World to this Present Time.

A hitherto unknown detailed proposal for printing Thomas Broughton’s A Dictionary of All Religions.

Thomas Broughton’s Bibliotheca historico-sacra was first published between 1737-9 in a large two volume format which aimed to provide information on all the known religions of the world. The reissue of this book in 1742 under the title An Historical Dictionary of All Religions, from the Creation of the World to this Present Time reduced the size of the work to a single volume but this proposal attempts to once again make Broughton’s important work more palatable for the general reader by “disposing of these Articles in the Order of the Alphabet” so that readers will be able, to “read the History of the Pagan, the Jewish and Christian, or the Mahometan Religion, or that of any of the Sects and Heresies, or any other particular Subject, as in a single and uninterrupted Treatise.”

The verso of the broadside provides a very detailed “Plan of the Work” which it is is promised will “consist of One Volume in Folio, containing sixty Numbers…Each Number will contain five printed Sheets, and will be delivered Weekly at the Price of Sixpence…and will be published on Saturday the 31st of January”