A dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris
Subtitle: with an answer to the objections of the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esquire
By: by Richard Bentley ...
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 857:40
Publisher: Printed by J.H. for Henry Mortlock ..., and John Hartley ...
Published: 1699
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 549
Subjects: Literary forgeries and mystifications
Other titles: Epistles of Phalaris
Notes: An earlier, shorter version of this work was appended to the second edition of William Wotton's Reflections on ancient and modern learning, 1697.

In part a reply to Boyle's Dr. Bentley's dissertations on the epistles of Phalaris and the fables of Aesop.

Signatures: A⁸ a-f⁸ B-E⁸ F⁸(±F3[=2N5]) G-I⁸ K⁸(±K5[=2N4]) L-2M⁸ 2N⁸.

Cancels for leaves F3 and K5 printed as part of gathering 2N.

Page 545 misnumbered 549.

Errata: p. [11] at end.

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B1929

ESTC R21147

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-FGY1.

Gift; Thomas Hollis; 11 April 1768.

Armorial bookplates of John Douglas and William Van Mildert; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

The gift of Thomas Hollis to the Harvard College Library.

Gift of  Mrs. Thomas P. Cope, December 1978.

Bound in contemporary full panelled calf (rebacked), spine stamped in gilt, edges stained red; in this copy, the cancel leaves are bound in their original location within gathering 2N.

Imperfect: t.-p. trimmed & mounted.

First of two titles bound together.

In CMI case.