A rather rare work by Charles Hodge on the importance of doing the hard work of manuscript and textual criticism for the ascertaining of the "original" text,. etc., This copy gifted to prominent Presbyterian, Gardiner Spring by Samuel Miller. 

Hodge, Charles. A Dissertation, on the Importance of Biblical Literature by Charles Hodge, A. M. Teacher of the Original Languages of Scripture, in the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, at Princeton. Trenton. Printed by George Sherman. 1822. 51pp.

A good + copy, bound in wraps that are tender at the hinges. Generally solid, with generally bright, yet handled pages. Inscription trimmed when bound into a previous sammelband.