Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of Aesop / examin'd by the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Charles, Earl of Orrery, 1674-1731.

Contributor:

Bennet, Thomas, -1706, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742. Dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris.

Bentley, Richard.

Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742. Dissertation upon the fables of Aesop.

Pseudo-Phalaris.

Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, active 6th century B.C.

Phalaris.

Milner, John, 1628-1702. View of the Dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris.

Milner, John.

Learning and scholarship.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (copy 2 & 3)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 288, 261-266 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The third edition, with some additions occasioned by a book entituled, A view of the Dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris,část.

Fingerprint:

s.ul r;er y.ks thno (3) 1699 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Tho. Bennet ..., 1699.

Notes:

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-T⁸ U⁶(-U6).

"Leaf L5 is a cancel."--ESTC.

Caption title on leaf Q4r: Dr. Bentley's dissertation upon the Fables of Æsop, examin'd.

Title printed in red and black within border of double rules.

Printed marginalia.

First published in 1698.

"With the assistance of F. Atterbury, G. Smalridge, R. Freind, J. Freind and A. Alsop."--BM.

The 'View of the Dissertation' was written by John Milner.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy 2 imperfect: leaf L7 wanting; the missing text is supplied in modern ms. in pencil on 3 leaves laid in its place.

Penn Libraries copy 2 has a few ms. marginal notes in pencil; lower board detached.

Penn Libraries copy 3 disbound; leaf O6 torn vertically across lower portion and mended.

Cited in:

ESTC R7879

Wing (2nd ed.) O471

OCLC:

19373753