Title: Observations On the present collection of epistles between Cicero and M. Brutus, Representing Several evident Marks of Forgery in those epistles; and the true State of many important Particulars in the Life and Writings of Cicero [...]
Description: Full title: Observations On the present collection of epistles between Cicero and M. Brutus, Representing Several evident Marks of Forgery in those epistles; and the true State of many important Particulars in the Life and Writings of Cicero: In Answer to the late Pretences of the Reverend Dr. Conyers Middleton. By James Tunstall, B.D. Fellow of the St. John's College, and Orator of the University of Cambridge. To which is added, A Letter from the Reverend Dr. Chapman on the Antient Numeral Characters of the Roman legions. 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. xxx, 435, [11], ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: A⁸ a⁷ B-2E⁸ 2F⁸ (2F⁸ blank). Calf. Gilt board sides, tooled and gilt spines. Macclesfield North Library bookplate and embossures. Press mark 116.D.34. Manuscript inscription Dorio dedit author Doctissimus" on f. [2]r. Conyer Middleton's use of suspect letters of Cicero and Brutus in his Cicero biography was first questioned by the Cambridge philologist James Tunstall (1708-1762) in Tunstalli Epistola ad virum eruditum C. Middleton