At right: Jonathan Edwards. Two Dissertations: I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The nature of true virtue. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken & Son, no. 22 Market Street, 1791. From the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature.
At right: Timothy Dwight. The Duty of Americans at the present crisis, illustrated in a discourse, preached on the Fourth of July, 1798, by the Reverend Timothy Dwight, D.D., president of Yale-college at the request of the citizens of New-Haven. New-Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1798.
At right: Timothy Dwight. The Nature, and Danger, of Infidel Philosophy, exhibited in two discourses, addressed to the candidates for the baccalaureate, in Yale College, September 9th, 1797. New Haven: Printed by George Bunce, 1798. From the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature.
At right: Timothy Dwight. A Discourse on Some Events of the Last Century, delivered in the Brick church in New Haven, on Wednesday, January 7, 1801. New Haven: Printed by Ezra Read, 1801. From the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature.
At right: Thomas Paine. Examination of the passages in the New Testament, quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, an essay on dream, shewing by what operation of the mind a dream is produced in sleep, and applying the same to the account of dreams in the New testament, with an appendix containing my private thoughts of a future state, and remarks on the contradictory doctrine in the books of Matthew and Mark. New York: Printed for the Author, [1807]. Gift of Richard Maass.