Accession number:
PML 63674
Published:
London : Printed by J. Leake, for Peter Buck, at the sign of the Temple, near the Inner-Temple-Gate, in Fleet-Street, MDCXCVII [1697]
Description:
[8], xxxvii, [3], 421, [3], 152 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Credit:
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Morgan, II, 1973.
Notes:
Edition statement appears on title page after statement of responsibility and before "With a dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris ... "
First edition of Bentley's "Dissertation upon the epistles."
The words "Phalaris ... Socrates," and "Euripides; ... Æsop's Fables." are each bracketed together on title page.
A second part was published in 1698. Cf. ESTC.
"A dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and others; and the Fables of Æsop" by Richard Bentley has a separate dated title page and separate pagination and signatures. It may also have been published separately (Wing B1928).
Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-2D⁸ 2E⁴, ²A-I⁸ ²K⁴ (2E4 blank).
Errata on page [1], 5th count and on page 152 at end.
Binding:
Brown speckled calf with unfilled rectangular pattern of brown calf, raised bands, manuscript label on spine, speckled edges.
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