Emendationes in Menandri et Philemonis reliquias, . ex nupera editione Joannis Clerici: ubi multa Grotii & aliorum, plurima vero Clerici errata castigantur, auctore Phileleuthero Lipsiensi. Scriptae anno MDCCX. Accedit epistola critica Richardi Bentleii de Johanne Malela Antiocheno; scripta anno MDCXCI.
Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742)
Category
Books
Date
1713
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3064563
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],160;[2],84,[2]p. . 8vo.. With copious manuscript notes in Macaulay's hand. With notes in another hand on flyleaves, commented on by Macaulay as 'exquisite' - 'must have been parson'.. Provenance: 'Michell Aul de Clare 0 2 1737' on flyleaf. Gilt 'M' (Macaulay) on spine. Note by Macaulay: 'I picked up the book in wretched condition on a book stall August 17 1859'. Note opposite in pencil 'It must have been almost the last book he purchased for he died at the end of that year.'. Binding: Leather bound (not contemporary with text), rebacked, gilt extra, marbled endpapers, red edges.
Makers and roles
Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742)