Bentley, Richard: replies A volume of three titles London 1721
[Bentley, Richard.] A volume containing three titles, one in duplicate, published in response to Bentley's proposals for a new edition of the New Testament. London: 1721. Together four vols. in three, 4to, recent boards (labelled "Bentleiana"). This volume is from the library of John Sparrow, with his book label. Included are the following: (a) [Anon.] A letter to the Reverend Master of Trinity-College in Cambridge, editor of a new Greek and Latin Testament. London: printed for J. Roberts, 1721. 23 pp. First edition. An attack on Bentley's rather outrageous reply to Conyers Middleton. The author, who signs himself Philalethes, is not so much concerned with Bentley's scholarship, as with the "rude unmannerly" language of his tract. Very uncommon; the ESTC (05/05) lists nine locations, rather a small number of this sort of scholarly controversy (L, C, Gu, Oc, Ohm; CtY, CSmH, CU-SB; GOT). In very good condition. Bartholomew and Clark 81. (b) [Middleton, Conyers.] Remarks, paragraph by paragraph, upon the proposals lately published by Richard Bentley, for a new edition of the Greek Testament and the Latin version. . . . By a member of the University of Cambridge. 24 pp. Second edition; first printed earlier the same year. A sharp attack on Bentley's proposed edition of the New Testament, by one of Bentley's most persistent opponents at Trinity College. Bentley chose to assume that this pamphlet was by another enemy, Middleton's friend John Colbatch, and he published a venomous reply. In very good condition. Barthlomew 76 and Clark; CBEL II, 1821. (c) A second copy of the preceding. In very good condition. (d) Middleton, Conyers. Some farther remarks, paragraph by paragraph, upon proposals lately publish'd for a new edition of a Greek and Latin Testament, by Richard Bentley. Containing a full answer to the editor's late defence of his said proposals, as well as to all his objecttions there made against my former remarks. London: printed for T. Bickerton, 1721. (10), 74 pp. First edition. In his second contribution to the controversy, Middleton successfully identified problems with Bentley's scholarship. Some marginal stains; margins of the first and last leaves irregularly trimmed. Bartholomew and Clark 84.
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