The modest critick: or Remarks upon the most eminent historians, ancient and modern
Subtitle: With useful cautions and instructions, as well for writing, as reading history: wherin the sense of the greatest men on this subject is faithfully abridged
By: By one of the society of the Port-Royal
Publisher: Printed for John Barnes ...
Published: 1689
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Historiography
Notes: Signatures: A⁸, a⁴, B-K⁸, L⁴.

Title within double line border. Marginal notes.

"Licensed, October the 9th. 1688. Rob. Midgley". - 1st prelim. leaf.

Translation of the author's Instructions pour l'histoire; another translation, by John Davies, was published earlier (1680) under title: Instructions for history.