Athenae britannicae: or, A critical history of the Oxford and Cambridge writers and writings, with those of the Dissenters and Romanists, as well as other authors and worthies, both domestick and foreign, both ancient and modern. Together with an occasional freedom of thought, in criticizing and comparing the prallel qualifications of the most eminent authors and their performances, both is manuscript and print, both at home and abroad. /
Davies, Myles,1662-1716?
Ailesbury, Charles Bruce,Earl of,1682-1747,former owner.StEdNL: NG.1560.c.11
London, : Printed for the author, and sold by his appointment, only at the corner of Little Queen-street, Holbourn,,
1716..
In seven parts, each with separate pagination and register: dedicatory epistle and Latin ode to George II as Prince of Wales, and A critical history of Oxford and Cambridge writers and other writings; A dissertation upon the author and oeconomy of the Latin drama, ...; A supplement to the dissertation upon the Latin drama, ...; Conamina lyrica ...; The present and primitive state of Arianism truly stated ...; Martii calendae; ...; and Stricturae pindaricae.
In the second part pagination is irregular, but text and register are continuous.
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Armorial bookplate on verso of title page: The Right Honble. Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill (son and heir apparent of Thomas Earl of Ailesbury) and Baron Bruce of Whorleton 1712.
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