Characters and criticisms, upon the ancient and modern orators, poets, painters, musicians, statuaries, and other arts and sciences
Subtitle: with an heroick poem (in blank verse) intitled, The age of Lewis the Great
By: written originally in French, by the Archbishop of Cambray, and made English by Capt. Bladen
Contributors: Bladen, Martin, 1680-1746; Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715; Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703
Publisher: Printed for R. Smith ...
Published: 1705
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Quarrel of Ancients and moderns
Other titles: Poetical account of the war lately declared between the ancients and the moderns.
Notes: Signatures: A4 (±A1), B-P8 (P8v advertisements).

In this state, the t.p. is a cancel; the integral t.p. has authorship statement "made English from the French original, written by the Bishop of Cambray". Cf. BLC. The attribution to Fénelon, however, is erroneous. Also reissued with cancel t.p. dated 1714.

A satire, partly in reply to "The age of Lewis the Great" (p. 181-211), by Charles Perrault.

Caption title (p. 1): A poetical account of the war lately declared between the ancients and the moderns.

Translation of: Histoire poëtique, de la guerre nouvellement déclarée entre les anciens et les modernes.

Includes index.

"Errata": p. [223].