A dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris: . with an answer to the objections of the Hon. Charles Boyle. By Richard Bentley, Chaplain in Ordinary and Library-keeper to His Majesty. To which are added, Dr. Bentley's Dissertation on the epistles of Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and others; and the fables of Æsop; as originally printed: with occasional remarks on the whole.
Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742)
Category
Books
Date
1777
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065611
Summary
Bibliographic description
iii,[1],lviii,456p. . 8vo.. MS. notes throughout, including dates of reading: 'Begun, October 6 1835; 'again Dec. 13, 1836'. 'Begun in November 1911 Wallington, reading with Boyle against Bentley'; 'Read twice in the winter of 1911, and then the Christchurch attack on it, which Bentley scorned to answer'. MS. note on flyleaf (in GO Trevelyan's hand): 'The notes and marginal lines are copied from Macaulay's 1817 edition at Wallington. The marginal lines here and there on the inside of the column of print are mine.'. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Full leather; rebacked; Harrow crest as centrepiece; gilt lettered direct on spine: 'Bentley's dissertations'; gilt tooling on turn-ins and board edges; marbled boards; gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742)