Bentley, Richard — Epistola Ad Joannem Millium

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1962. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Reprinted from the edition of the Rev. Alexander Dyce, together with an Introduction by G.P. Goold. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Brown cloth over boards, lightly rubbed black lettering to spine. Trilingual in Greek, English and Latin. Laid in is Professor Peter Morris Green's review typed on onion-skin. "Seldom in the history of classical scholarship can any man--let alone at the age of twenty-nine--have made so shattering a public debut as did Bentley with the Epistola ad Joannem Millium, a work called forth, as Professor Goold so pleasantly put it, 'by one of those unhappy productions which, mediocre themselves, have had the ill luck to attract the inspection of genius.'" From his Wikipedia entry is written, "Richard Bentley (27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the 'founder of historical philology,' Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A. E. Housman called Bentley 'the greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe ever bred"'" [4] 5-368 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine