# The Battle of the Books; with selections from the literature of the Phalaris controversy/Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Note:—Wherever possible the British Museum Press-marks are given.
I
Annotated Editions of the 'Battle of the Books'
[Contains, inter alia, the text of the Battle of the Books, an introduction to it, and a commentary.]
[pp. 155-187 contain the text of the Battle of the Books, a short introduction, and a commentary.]
II
The Ancient and Modern Learning Controversy in England [based upon the list in Dyce's ed. of Bentley's Works (1836-8)]
[This title is copied from Dyce, who remarks, "I have not met with any earlier impression of this Miscellany."
The earliest ed. in the B. M. has a similar title-page, but for 'The Second Edition' is substituted 'The Third Edition, Corrected and Augmented by the Author.' The date is 1692. A note printed at the beginning of the book explains that the first two edd. of these Essays were published "without the author's taking any further notice of them, than giving his consent to a friend who desired it . . . he has been since prevailed with, both to review this third edition, and augment it with several large periods. . . . "
In Arber's Term Catalogues (II. p. 337) there is given the following advertisement which appeared in the Michaelmas Term of 1690: 'Miscellanea, the Second Part, in Four Essays, 1. Upon ancient and modern Learning. 2. Upon the Gardens of Epirus [so in Arber], 3. Upon heroick Virtues [so in Arber]. 4. Upon Poetry. By Sir William Temple, Baronet. Octavo. Printed for Ri., and Ra., Simpson at the Sign of the Harp in St. Paul's Churchyard.'
Possibly this refers to the first ed. The same booksellers' names are given on the title-page of the third ed.]
(3) ΦΑΛΑΡΙΔΟΣ ΑΚΡΑΓΑΝΤΙΝΩΝ ΤΥΡΑΝΝΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ. PHALARIDIS AGRIGENTINORUM TYRANNI EPISTOLAE. Ex MSS Recensuit, VERSIONE, ANNOTATION​IBUS, & VITA Insuper AUTHORIS Donavit CAR. BOYLE ex Æde Christi. Εκ ΘΕΑΤΡΟΥ ἐν ΟΞΟΝΙΑ, Ετει ᾳχηε [1695]. Excudebat Johannes Crooke. [682. b. 7.]
(5) Fabularum Æsopicarum Delectus. [Edited by A. Alsop; with additional fables in Hebrew and Latin, in Arabic and Latin, and in Latin alone.]
[See Introduction to this vol., p. xxix.]
(6) Dr Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of Æsop, Examin'd by the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq:
[Written by John Milner, a man of no ordinary learning, and author of various publications. He was Vicar of Leeds and Prebendary of Ripon; but when the Revolution ​took place, having lost his preferments for nonjurancy, he retired to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he continued till his death in 1702.Dyce.]
(8) A Free but Modest Censure on the late Controversial Writings and Debates
| of | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | The Lord Bishop of Worcester and Mr Locke: |
| of | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | Mr Edwards and Mr Locke: |
| of | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | The Honble Charles Boyle, Esq; and Dr Bently. |
[The following poems contain references to Bentley: (i) Articuli Pacis (by Ed. Ivy of Christ Church); (2) Intellectus agens illuminat phantasmata. Ad R. B. bibliothecarium philocriticum; (3) Forma ultima est specifica. Ad Eundem. De conversione Malela seu Malala nominis Syriaci in Malelas nomen Graecum.]
[By Thomas Rymer, author of The Tragedies of the last Age considered, and A Short View of Tragedy, and compiler of the Fœdera.]
[See the notes on 15 and 17 below.]
[This title is copied from Dyce, who says that he has not seen the work: 'but (he continues) from a minute account of it with which I have been favoured by the Rev. B. H. Kennedy it appears to be either a different edition of the volume just noticed [that is, 14 above], or the same edition with a new title-page and a few additions.' See also the note on 17 below.]
(16) A Short Account of Dr Bentley's Humanity and Justice, To those Authors who have written before him: With ​an Honest Vindication of Tho. Stanley, Esquire, and his Notes on Callimachus. To which are added, Some other Observations on that Poet. In a Letter to the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq; With a Postscript, in Relation to Dr Bentley's late Book against him. To which is added an Appendix, by the Bookseller; wherein the Doctor's Mis-Representations of all the Matters of Fact wherein he is concern'd, in his late Book about Phalaris's Epistles, are modestly consider'd; with a Letter from the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq; on that Subject.
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$
[See Jebb's Bentley, pp. 76-7.]
[On the page following the Preface to the Reader is an Advertisement, "Lately publish'd the Epistles of Phalaris, translated into English from the Original, by the Author of this ANSWER." Solomon Whateley is supposed to have written this book (Monk's Bentley (ed. 1833), Vol. I. p. 131). If he wrote the first of the two translations of Phalaris mentioned above (14), it would be interesting to know why ​the initials J. S. (which, of course, would now suggest the name Jonathan Swift) were put on the title-page. More than one 'J. S.' was writing at this time. See the indexes to Arber's Term Catalogues.]
[See Jebb's Bentley, p. 79.]
[By Atterbury: see Jebb's Bentley, pp. 79-81.]
​(23) Exercitationes duae: prima, de aetate Phalaridis; secunda, de aetate Pythagorae Philosophi. Ab Henrico Dodwello. . . . Londini. . . . MDCCIV.
[92. c. 25.]
(24) A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. Diu multumque desideratum. To which is added, An Account of a Battel between the Ancient and Modern Books in St James's Library. . . . MDCCIV. [1079. m. 13.]
(25) Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning. To which is now added A Defense Thereof, In Answer to the Objections of Sir W. Temple, and Others. With Observations upon the Tale of a Tub. By William Wotton, B.D. Also, A Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, &c. and the Fables of Aesop. By R. Bentley, D.D. Third Edition Corrected. . . . MDCCV. [833. c. 15.]
[In this ed. that part of Bentley's first Dissertation which related to the Epistles of Phalaris is omitted, because of its publication separately in 1699: see No. 13.]
(26) A Complete Key to the Tale of a Tub. With some account of the authors, The Occasion and Design of Writing it, and Mr Wotton's Remarks examin'd.
London: Printed for Edmund Curll. . . . 1710. . . .
Where may be had A Meditation upon a Broomstick, and somewhat beside, utile dulci; by one of the Authors of the Tale of a Tub. [1080. i. 66.]
[See the Introduction to this vol. p. xl., note.]
(27) A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. Diu multumque desideratum. To which is added. An Account of a Battel between the Ancient and Modern Books in St James's Library. . . . The Fifth Edition: With ​the Author's Apology and Explanatory Notes. By W. W—tt—n, B.D. and others. London. . . . MDCCX.
[Not in B. M.]
(29) A Discourse on Ancient and Modern Learning. By the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; Now first published from an Original Manuscript of Mr. Addison's, Prepared and Corrected by himself. The Ninth Edition. . . . MDCCXXXIX. [616. k. 17 (i).]
[This is the earliest ed. in the B. M. The first ed. is said to have been published in the same year (D.N.B., art. Addison).]
III
The Principal Printed Editions and Translations of the 'Epistles of Phalaris' [See also under II]
(1) Begin: Ihesus. Francisci Arhetini in Phalaridis Tyranni agrigentini epistulas prohemium. [A Latin version of the Epistles of Phalaris by Franciscus, Accoltus, Aretinus.]
Girardus Lisa: Tarvisii, 1471. [C i. a. 23.]
(2) Begin: Proemio di B. Fontio . . . nella traductione delle epistole de Phalari. End: Phalaridis epistolarum opus . . . a B. Fontio Fiorenteno a latino in vulgarem sermonem traductam feliciter finit. 1471. [I. A. 36757.]
(4) [The spurious Epistles of Phalaris, the Epistles of Apollonius Tyaneus and Marcus Junius Brutus. Edited by Bartholomæus Justinopolitanus.] Begin: Bartholomæus Justinopolitanus Petro Contareno patritio veneto S.
[Contains, inter alia, a Greek text of the Epistles of Phalaris.]
(6) Le bellissime e sententiose lettere di Falari . . . di nuovo tradotte dalla Greca nella favella Toscana. [Edited by F. Sansovino]. Vinegia. 1545.
[According to the B. M. Catalogue 'the first few letters are after the tr. of B. Fonzio; the others deviate considerably from it.']
(8) Epistolarum Laconicarum atque selectarum farragines duæ: quarum prima è Græcis tantú conversas: altera Latinorum tam veterum quàm recentium elegantiores aliquot complectitur: Gilberti Cognati . . . opera . . . olim collectæ, et nunc rursum magna accesione locupletatæ. etc. [Three pts. in two vols.]
​[Vol. I. pp. 217-342 contains Phalaridis Agrigentinorum Tyranni epistolæ. The tr. is that of (2) above, revised.]
[Cognatus is the Latinised form of Cousin.]
(9) Epistres de Phalaris . . . nouvellement traduites de Grec en François [by G. Gruget]. 1556. [246. a. 19.]
(10) Phalaridis . . . Epistolæ. Græce ac Latine. T. Naogeorgo interprete.
Per Ioannem Oporinum: Basileæ, 1558. 8°. [1082. b. 3.]
(11) φαλαριδος Άκραγαντινων Τυραννου Έπιστολαι πανυ θαυμασιαι. Phalaridis . . . Epistolae . . . in quibus optimi & sapientissimi Imperatoris idea proponitur. Jam primum in Germania editæ [by E. Lubin].
Typis S. Myliandri: Rostochii, 1597. 8°. [10905. bb. 10.]
(12) Phalaridis Epistolæ Græcolatinæ in usum scholarum Societatis Jesu.
[See p. 56 of Jebb's Bentley.]
(13) The Epistles of Phalaris, the Tyrant of Agrigentum in Sicily. Translated into English by W. D. London. . . . 1634.
(14) The Epistles of Phalaris, Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers. By Thomas Francklin. . . . London. . .
[See pp. 81-2 of Jebb's Bentley.]
(15) φαλαριδος Έπιστολαι. Phalaridis Epistolæ. Quas Latinas fecit et interpositis C. Boyle notis, commentario illustravit J. D. a Lennep. Mortuo Lennepio finem operi imposuit, præfationem, et adnotationes quasdam praefixit L. C. Valckenaer.
​(R. Bentleii dissertatio de Phalaridis, Themistoclis, Socratis, Euripidis, aliorumque epistolis, et de fabulis Æsopi. Necnon eiusdem responsio qua dissertationem de epistolis Phalaridis vindicat a censura C. Boyle. Omnia ex Anglico in Latinum sermonem convertit J. D. a Lennep.)
Groningae, 1777. [831. i. 1.]
(16) ΦΑΛΑΡΙΔΟΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ. Phalaridis Epistolae.
IV
Books containing References to the 'Battle of the Books,' or to the Ancient and Modern Learning Controversy
[See also Jebb's Bentley, pp. 76-85]
[Vol. 2, pp. 21-3, Letter X. Mr. Atterbury to Mr. Boyle (see p. xxx. of Introduction to this vol.).]
[See pp. 218-9 and 228-9.]
[Vol. 2, pp. 1–38, contains A Sermon Preached in the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul at the Funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennett. Aug. 30, 1706. (See p. xxiv., note, of Introduction to this vol.)]
[By A. Boyer see pp. 388-408.]
[See pp. 309-11 and 321-3.]
[See Chap. IV., and Chap. VI. p. 117.]
[See Vol. III. pp. 7 and 11: Johnson's Life of Swift first appeared in 1781.]
[See Section I.; Section II. pp. 45 and 47-51; and Conclusion, PP. 525-8.]
[See Jebb's Bentley, p. 82. See p. 85.]
[Letters from Warburton to Hurd. See pp. 9-11.]
[See Vol II. pp. 125-69.]
[By William Monck Mason. See Book II. Chapter V. Sect. I.]
[Vol. I. contains Scott's Life of Swift: see pp. 82-91.]
[See Vol. I. Chapters IV.-VI.]
[See Vol. II. Chapter XXXIII.]
[Appeared first in the Edinburgh Review for October 1838.]
[See pp. 64-6, 164, 167–8, 430–1.]
[Appeared first in the 8th edn. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1853.]
[See pp. 295-374.]
​(21) Richard Bentley, by Thomas De Quincey.
[See pp. vi. and vii. of Jebb's Bentley.]
[See pp. 90-5 and 141-4.]
[See pp. 35-90.]
[See Chapter III.]
[In Bohn's Classical Library: a reprint of the ed. published at Berlin in 1874.]
(27) Bentley, by R. C. Jebb. . . . 1889.
[A new ed. of the book first published in the English Men of Letters Series in 1882. See Chapters IV. and V.]
[See pp. 18-21.]
[See pp. 40-3.]
[See Vol I. Chapter III.]
[See Vol. II. pp. 320-2; 401-2; 450-1, 503 and foll.]
[See Vol. I. pp. 19-21: the footnote 2 to p. 19 is inaccurate: Charlett was Master of University College, Oxford.]
[See Vol. I. pp. Ixxxviii.-cvi.]
Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London and Bungay.