A Short account of Dr. Bentley's humanity and justice, to those authors who have written before him
Subtitle: with an honest vindication of Tho. Stanley ... and his notes on Callimachus ; to which are added, some other observations on that poet ; in a letter to ... Charles Boyle ; with a postcript, 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 ... on that subject
Publisher: T. Bennett
Published: 1699
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Notes: "By the Christ Church wits. The Short account was just ready for publication when Bentley's second Dissertation came forth; the appendix (Which Dr. Monk conjectures to have been written by King) was added after the appearance of that work."-Bentley. Dissertation upon the Epistles of Philaris, ed. by A. Dycle. p.xv.

C.A. Stonehill in Anonyma and pseudonyma attributes the entire work to King.

The gift of Thomas Hollis to the Harvard College Library.

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

No. 1 in a volume labeled on spine: Tracts. 1699.

In this state, an errata slip is mounted on verso of t.-p.; in some copies (cf. Bartholomew 121) this slip is apparently inserted at end.

Second of two titles bound together.

Bound in contemporary calf, edges sprinkled red, gilt floral tool stamped in center of covers.

In CMI case.