Item #52808 REMARKS UPON A LATE DISCOURSE OF FREE-THINKING IN A LETTER TO F. H. D. D.: (First and Second Parts). Richard Bentley, As Phileleutherus Lipsiensis.

REMARKS UPON A LATE DISCOURSE OF FREE-THINKING IN A LETTER TO F. H. D. D.: (First and Second Parts).

London: John Morphew and E. Curl, 1713. First edition of the second part bound together with the third edition of the first part, each retaining its original title page. Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, theologian and Master of Trinity College. He is credited with creating the English school of Hellenism, is ranked with the great heroes of classical learning and called the "founder of historical philology." His REMARKS UPON... is one of the best-known responses to the English philosopher and deist Anthony Collins's DISCOURSE OF FREE-THINKING. (Dictionary of National Biography). 12mo gilt-stamped leather-backed marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers and all edges marbled; 85 pp.; 82 pp.; plus one page of ads. Tiny, penciled, scholarly notations at rear and in margins throughout; verso of marbled endpapers and opposing blanks spotted, otherwise interior is quite fresh and clean. Binding edges worn and front board rubbed, otherwise quite good.
Item #52808

Price: $250.00