The Battle of the Books; with selections from the literature of the Phalaris controversy/Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Note:—Wherever possible the British Museum Press-marks are given.
I
Annotated Editions of the 'Battle of the Books'
[Contains, inter alia, the text of the Battle of the Books, an introduction to it, and a commentary.]
(2) The Battle of the Books. . . . Edited, with an introduction and notes, by C. Egerton. . . . 1890. [12316. h. 25.] (3) The prose works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., edited by Temple Scott. . . . Vol. I. A Tale of a Tub and other early works. . . . 1900. [2504. k. 13.][pp. 155-187 contain the text of the Battle of the Books, a short introduction, and a commentary.]
II
The Ancient and Modern Learning Controversy in England
[based upon the list in Dyce's ed. of Bentley's Works (1836-8)]
[This title is copied from Dyce, who remarks, "I have not met with any earlier impression of this Miscellany."
The earliest ed. in the B. M. has a similar title-page, but for 'The Second Edition' is substituted 'The Third Edition, Corrected and Augmented by the Author.' The date is 1692. A note printed at the beginning of the book explains that the first two edd. of these Essays were published "without the author's taking any further notice of them, than giving his consent to a friend who desired it . . . he has been since prevailed with, both to review this third edition, and augment it with several large periods. . . . "
In Arber's Term Catalogues (II. p. 337) there is given the following advertisement which appeared in the Michaelmas Term of 1690: 'Miscellanea, the Second Part, in Four Essays, 1. Upon ancient and modern Learning. 2. Upon the Gardens of Epirus [so in Arber], 3. Upon heroick Virtues [so in Arber]. 4. Upon Poetry. By Sir William Temple, Baronet. Octavo. Printed for Ri., and Ra., Simpson at the Sign of the Harp in St. Paul's Churchyard.'
Possibly this refers to the first ed. The same booksellers' names are given on the title-page of the third ed.]
(2) Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning. By William Wotton, B.D. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham. London. MDCXCIV. [8409. b. 32.](3) ΦΑΛΑΡΙΔΟΣ ΑΚΡΑΓΑΝΤΙΝΩΝ ΤΥΡΑΝΝΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ. PHALARIDIS AGRIGENTINORUM TYRANNI EPISTOLAE. Ex MSS Recensuit, VERSIONE, ANNOTATIONIBUS, & VITA Insuper AUTHORIS Donavit CAR. BOYLE ex Æde Christi. Εκ ΘΕΑΤΡΟΥ ἐν ΟΞΟΝΙΑ, Ετει ᾳχηε [1695]. Excudebat Johannes Crooke. [682. b. 7.]
(4) Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning. By William Wotton, B.D. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham. The Second Edition, with Large Additions. With a Dissertation upon The Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides; &c. and Æsop's Fables. By Dr. Bentley. . . . MDCXCVII. [833. e. 14(1).](5) Fabularum Æsopicarum Delectus. [Edited by A. Alsop; with additional fables in Hebrew and Latin, in Arabic and Latin, and in Latin alone.]
Oxoniæ, E Theatro Sheldoniano: 1698. [637. i. 13 (2).][See Introduction to this vol., p. xxix.]
(6) Dr Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of Æsop, Examin'd by the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq:
Wedg'd in that Timber, which he strove to rend.
Roscomm. Ess. of Transl. Vers.
[Written by John Milner, a man of no ordinary learning, and author of various publications. He was Vicar of Leeds and Prebendary of Ripon; but when the Revolution took place, having lost his preferments for nonjurancy, he retired to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he continued till his death in 1702.Dyce.]
(8) A Free but Modest Censure on the late Controversial Writings and Debates
| of | The Lord Bishop of Worcester and Mr Locke: | |
| Mr Edwards and Mr Locke: | ||
| The Honble Charles Boyle, Esq; and Dr Bently. |
[The following poems contain references to Bentley: (i) Articuli Pacis (by Ed. Ivy of Christ Church); (2) Intellectus agens illuminat phantasmata. Ad R. B. bibliothecarium philocriticum; (3) Forma ultima est specifica. Ad Eundem. De conversione Malela seu Malala nominis Syriaci in Malelas nomen Graecum.]
(10) An Essay, concerning Critical and Curious Learning: In which are contained some Short Reflections on the Controversie betwixt Sir William Temple and Mr Wotton; and that betwixt Dr Bentley and Mr Boyl. By T. R. Esq; London, 1698. [579. c. 40 (2).][By Thomas Rymer, author of The Tragedies of the last Age considered, and A Short View of Tragedy, and compiler of the Fœdera.]
(11) An Answer to a late pamphlet called An Essay concerning Critical and Curious Learning; In which are contained Some short Reflections on the controversie betwixt Sir W. Temple and Mr Wotton and that betwixt Dr Bentley and Mr Boyle. London. . . . 1698. [1087. c. 37.] (12) A Vindication of an Essay concerning Critical and Curious Learning. . . . In Answer to an Oxford Pamphlet. By the Author of that Essay. . . . 1698. [1088. h. 4.] (13) A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. With An Answer to the Objections of the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esquire. By Richard Bentley, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary and Library-Keeper to his Majesty. . . . 1699. [673. b. 16.] (14) The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated into English from the Original Greek by J. S. Together with an appendix of some other Epistles lately discovered in a French MS. . . . 1699. [10905. bb. 17.][See the notes on 15 and 17 below.]
(15) The Epistles of Phalaris Translated into English from the Original Greek. By S. Whately, late of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford, M.A. To which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the Epistles of Phalaris. Together with an Appendix of some other Epistles lately Discovered in a French MS. . . .. London 1699. [Not in B. M.][This title is copied from Dyce, who says that he has not seen the work: 'but (he continues) from a minute account of it with which I have been favoured by the Rev. B. H. Kennedy it appears to be either a different edition of the volume just noticed [that is, 14 above], or the same edition with a new title-page and a few additions.' See also the note on 17 below.]
(16) A Short Account of Dr Bentley's Humanity and Justice, To those Authors who have written before him: With an Honest Vindication of Tho. Stanley, Esquire, and his Notes on Callimachus. To which are added, Some other Observations on that Poet. In a Letter to the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq; With a Postscript, in Relation to Dr Bentley's late Book against him. To which is added an Appendix, by the Bookseller; wherein the Doctor's Mis-Representations of all the Matters of Fact wherein he is concern'd, in his late Book about Phalaris's Epistles, are modestly consider'd; with a Letter from the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq; on that Subject.
Grex avium plumas, risum Cornicla movebit,
Furtivis nudata Coloribus———
And every borrow'd Feather's flown,
How mean the Jackdaw looks, for all is gone!
[See Jebb's Bentley, pp. 76-7.]
(17) An Answer to a late Book written against the Learned and Reverend Dr Bentley, relating to some Manuscript Notes on Callimachus. Together with an Examination of Mr Bennet's Appendix to the said Book. . . . 1699. [699. h. 5 (1).][On the page following the Preface to the Reader is an Advertisement, "Lately publish'd the Epistles of Phalaris, translated into English from the Original, by the Author of this ANSWER." Solomon Whateley is supposed to have written this book (Monk's Bentley (ed. 1833), Vol. I. p. 131). If he wrote the first of the two translations of Phalaris mentioned above (14), it would be interesting to know why the initials J. S. (which, of course, would now suggest the name Jonathan Swift) were put on the title-page. More than one 'J. S.' was writing at this time. See the indexes to Arber's Term Catalogues.]
(18) A Letter to the Reverend Dr Bentley upon the Controversie Between Him and Mr Boyle. . . . MDCXCIX. [11826. cc. 8.] (19) A Chronological Account of the Life of Pythagoras, and of other Famous Men His Contemporaries. With an Epistle to the Rd Dr Bentley, about Porphyry's and Jamblichus's Lives of Pythagoras. By the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Ld Bp of Coventry and Lichfield. . . . 1699. [10605. c. 22.][See Jebb's Bentley, p. 79.]
(20) Dialogues of the Dead. Relating to the present Controversy concerning the Epistles of Phalaris. By the Author of the Journey to London. . . . 1699. [By Dr. King.] [1086. e. 37(1).] (21) A Short Review of the Controversy between Mr Boyle, and Dr Bentley. With Suitable Reflections upon it. And the Dr's Advantagious Character of himself at full length. Recommended to the serious perusal of such as propose to be considered for their Fairness, Modesty, and good Temper in Writing. . . . 1701. [T. 723 (2).][By Atterbury: see Jebb's Bentley, pp. 79-81.]
(22) Miscellanea. The Third Part. Containing—I. An Essay on Popular Discontents. II. An Essay upon Health and Long Life. III. A Defence of the Essay upon Antient and Modern Learning. With some other Pieces. By the late Sir William Temple, Bar. Published by Jonathan Swift, A.M. Prebendary of St Patrick's Dublin. . . . 1701. [12352. f. 29.](23) Exercitationes duae: prima, de aetate Phalaridis; secunda, de aetate Pythagorae Philosophi. Ab Henrico Dodwello. . . . Londini. . . . MDCCIV.
[92. c. 25.]
(24) A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. Diu multumque desideratum. To which is added, An Account of a Battel between the Ancient and Modern Books in St James's Library. . . . MDCCIV. [1079. m. 13.]
(25) Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning. To which is now added A Defense Thereof, In Answer to the Objections of Sir W. Temple, and Others. With Observations upon the Tale of a Tub. By William Wotton, B.D. Also, A Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, &c. and the Fables of Aesop. By R. Bentley, D.D. Third Edition Corrected. . . . MDCCV. [833. c. 15.]
[In this ed. that part of Bentley's first Dissertation which related to the Epistles of Phalaris is omitted, because of its publication separately in 1699: see No. 13.]
(26) A Complete Key to the Tale of a Tub. With some account of the authors, The Occasion and Design of Writing it, and Mr Wotton's Remarks examin'd.
London: Printed for Edmund Curll. . . . 1710. . . .
Where may be had A Meditation upon a Broomstick, and somewhat beside, utile dulci; by one of the Authors of the Tale of a Tub. [1080. i. 66.]
[See the Introduction to this vol. p. xl., note.]
(27) A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. Diu multumque desideratum. To which is added. An Account of a Battel between the Ancient and Modern Books in St James's Library. . . . The Fifth Edition: With the Author's Apology and Explanatory Notes. By W. W—tt—n, B.D. and others. London. . . . MDCCX.
[Not in B. M.]
(29) A Discourse on Ancient and Modern Learning. By the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; Now first published from an Original Manuscript of Mr. Addison's, Prepared and Corrected by himself. The Ninth Edition. . . . MDCCXXXIX. [616. k. 17 (i).]
[This is the earliest ed. in the B. M. The first ed. is said to have been published in the same year (D.N.B., art. Addison).]
III
The Principal Printed Editions and Translations of the 'Epistles of Phalaris' [See also under II]
(1) Begin: Ihesus. Francisci Arhetini in Phalaridis Tyranni agrigentini epistulas prohemium. [A Latin version of the Epistles of Phalaris by Franciscus, Accoltus, Aretinus.]
Girardus Lisa: Tarvisii, 1471. [C i. a. 23.]
(2) Begin: Proemio di B. Fontio . . . nella traductione delle epistole de Phalari. End: Phalaridis epistolarum opus . . . a B. Fontio Fiorenteno a latino in vulgarem sermonem traductam feliciter finit. 1471. [I. A. 36757.]
(3) [The Epistles of Phalaris translated by J. A. Ferabos from the Latin of F. Accoltus.] Begin: Fratre Joanne Andrea ferabos Karmelitano alo Illustrissimo Signore Don A. Centelles, etc. [Fol. I verso:] El proemio de Frācisco Aretino i le epłe de phalari, etc. (Naples, 1475?). [I. A. 29368.](4) [The spurious Epistles of Phalaris, the Epistles of Apollonius Tyaneus and Marcus Junius Brutus. Edited by Bartholomæus Justinopolitanus.] Begin: Bartholomæus Justinopolitanus Petro Contareno patritio veneto S.
Ex ædibus Bartholomæi Justinopolitani, Gabrielis Brasichellensis. Joannis Bissoli et Benedicti Mangii carpensium: [Venice,] 1498. [I. A. 24702.] (5) Epistolae [Edited by Aldus Manutius Romanus]. 1499. [C. I. a. 21.][Contains, inter alia, a Greek text of the Epistles of Phalaris.]
(6) Le bellissime e sententiose lettere di Falari . . . di nuovo tradotte dalla Greca nella favella Toscana. [Edited by F. Sansovino]. Vinegia. 1545.
[According to the B. M. Catalogue 'the first few letters are after the tr. of B. Fonzio; the others deviate considerably from it.']
(7) L'Epistole di Phalaride . . . tradotte dalla lingua Greca nella volgare Italiana. Vinegia. 1545. [246. g. 9.](8) Epistolarum Laconicarum atque selectarum farragines duæ: quarum prima è Græcis tantú conversas: altera Latinorum tam veterum quàm recentium elegantiores aliquot complectitur: Gilberti Cognati . . . opera . . . olim collectæ, et nunc rursum magna accesione locupletatæ. etc. [Three pts. in two vols.]
Basileæ, 1554. [1084. b. i.][Vol. I. pp. 217-342 contains Phalaridis Agrigentinorum Tyranni epistolæ. The tr. is that of (2) above, revised.]
[Cognatus is the Latinised form of Cousin.]
(9) Epistres de Phalaris . . . nouvellement traduites de Grec en François [by G. Gruget]. 1556. [246. a. 19.]
(10) Phalaridis . . . Epistolæ. Græce ac Latine. T. Naogeorgo interprete.
Per Ioannem Oporinum: Basileæ, 1558. 8°. [1082. b. 3.]
(11) φαλαριδος Άκραγαντινων Τυραννου Έπιστολαι πανυ θαυμασιαι. Phalaridis . . . Epistolae . . . in quibus optimi & sapientissimi Imperatoris idea proponitur. Jam primum in Germania editæ [by E. Lubin].
Typis S. Myliandri: Rostochii, 1597. 8°. [10905. bb. 10.]
(12) Phalaridis Epistolæ Græcolatinæ in usum scholarum Societatis Jesu.
Apud Elizabethan! Angermariam: Ingolstadii, 1614. [1083. a. 1.][See p. 56 of Jebb's Bentley.]
(13) The Epistles of Phalaris, the Tyrant of Agrigentum in Sicily. Translated into English by W. D. London. . . . 1634.
[10905. b. 21.](14) The Epistles of Phalaris, Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers. By Thomas Francklin. . . . London. . .
1749. [10905. g. 15.][See pp. 81-2 of Jebb's Bentley.]
(15) φαλαριδος Έπιστολαι. Phalaridis Epistolæ. Quas Latinas fecit et interpositis C. Boyle notis, commentario illustravit J. D. a Lennep. Mortuo Lennepio finem operi imposuit, præfationem, et adnotationes quasdam praefixit L. C. Valckenaer.
(R. Bentleii dissertatio de Phalaridis, Themistoclis, Socratis, Euripidis, aliorumque epistolis, et de fabulis Æsopi. Necnon eiusdem responsio qua dissertationem de epistolis Phalaridis vindicat a censura C. Boyle. Omnia ex Anglico in Latinum sermonem convertit J. D. a Lennep.)
Groningae, 1777. [831. i. 1.]
(16) ΦΑΛΑΡΙΔΟΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ. Phalaridis Epistolae.
Hercher, R. Epistolographi Græci. pp. 409-459. Paris, 1873. [2046. c.]IV
Books containing References to the 'Battle of the Books,' or to the Ancient and Modern Learning Controversy
[See also Jebb's Bentley, pp. 76-85]
(1) The Epistolary Correspondence, Visitation Charges, Speeches, and Miscellanies of the Right Reverend Francis Atterbury. . . . London. . . . 1783-90. [5 vols.] [90. b. 2-6.][Vol. 2, pp. 21-3, Letter X. Mr. Atterbury to Mr. Boyle (see p. xxx. of Introduction to this vol.).]
(2) Letters of Wit, Politicks, and Morality. . . . Done into English, By the Honourable H— H— Esq; Tho. Cheek, Esq; Mr. Savage; Mr. Boyer, &c. . . . 1701. [93. c. 5.][See pp. 218-9 and 228-9.]
(3) Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions by Francis Atterbury. London. 1723. [4455.g. 10.][Vol. 2, pp. 1–38, contains A Sermon Preached in the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul at the Funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennett. Aug. 30, 1706. (See p. xxiv., note, of Introduction to this vol.)]
(4) Memoirs of the life and negotiations of Sir W. Temple, Bar. . . . London. 1714. [G. 14140.][By A. Boyer see pp. 388-408.]
(5) Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift. . . [by] John Earl of Orrery. . . . London. 1752.[C. 45. e. 13.][See pp. 309-11 and 321-3.]
(6) An Essay upon the Life, Writings, and Character of Dr. Jonathan Swift. . . . By Deane Swift, Esq; . . . 1755. [633. f. 23.][See Chap. IV., and Chap. VI. p. 117.]
(7) Lives of the English Poets, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D., edited by George Birkbeck Hill. . . . [3 vols.] . . . Oxford . . . 1905. [2096. b.][See Vol. III. pp. 7 and 11: Johnson's Life of Swift first appeared in 1781.]
(8) The life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, . . . by Thomas Sheridan, . . . 1784. [1202. g. 4.][See Section I.; Section II. pp. 45 and 47-51; and Conclusion, PP. 525-8.]
(9) Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. . . . London. . . . 1806. [841. m. 10.][See Jebb's Bentley, p. 82. See p. 85.]
(10) Letters from a Late Eminent Prelate to One of his Friends (Second Ed.). . . . London. 1809. [1086. f. 20.][Letters from Warburton to Hurd. See pp. 9-11.]
(11) Quarrels of authors . . . by the author of "Calamities of authors" . . . [Isaac Disraeli] . . . [3 vols.] . . . 1814. [91. a. 18.][See Vol II. pp. 125-69.]
(12) The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St Patrick. . . . Dublin. . . . 1820. [579. k. 10.][By William Monck Mason. See Book II. Chapter V. Sect. I.]
(13) The Works of Jonathan Swift . . . with Notes, and a life of the author, by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Second Ed. 1824. [2042. b.][Vol. I. contains Scott's Life of Swift: see pp. 82-91.]
(14) Life of Richard Bentley, D.D. . . . by James Henry Monk, D.D. . . . Second Edition. . . . [2 vols.] . . . London. 1833. [4903. gg. 20.][See Vol. I. Chapters IV.-VI.]
(15) The Works of Richard Bentley, collected and edited by the Rev. A. Dyce. [3 vols.] London. 1836-8. [833. e. 2-4.][See Vol. II. Chapter XXXIII.]
(16) Memoirs of the life, works, and correspondence of Sir William Temple, Bart., by . . . Thomas Peregrine Courtenay. [2 vols.] . . . London. 1836. [2406. e. 1.] (17) Life and Writings of Sir William Temple, by T. B. Macaulay. [K. T. C. 103. b. 1.][Appeared first in the Edinburgh Review for October 1838.]
(18) Bentley's Correspondence, edited by C. Wordsworth. [2 vols.] London. 1842. [1209. h. 23.][See pp. 64-6, 164, 167–8, 430–1.]
(19) Francis Atterbury, by T. B. Macaulay. [K. T. C. 103. b. 1.][Appeared first in the 8th edn. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1853.]
(20) Histoire de la querelle des anciens et des modernes. [Vol. I. of Œuvres complètes of H. Rigault. Paris. [1859.] [830. f. 21.][See pp. 295-374.]
(21) Richard Bentley, by Thomas De Quincey.
[Appeared first as two articles in Blackwood's Magazine for Sept. and Oct. 1830, as a review of the 1st edn. of Monk's Life of Bentley. Revised in 1857. Vol. 6 of Works. Edinburgh. 1862.] [2041. a.] (22) Richard Bentley. Eine Biographie von Jacob Maehly. . . . Leipzig. . . . 1868. [4902. g. 1.][See pp. vi. and vii. of Jebb's Bentley.]
(23) The life of Jonathan Swift, by John Forster. Vol. I. 1875. [2408. f. 6.][See pp. 90-5 and 141-4.]
(24) Great Scholars . . . Bentley, &c., by Henry James Nicoll. Edinburgh. 1880. [10602. aaa. 22.][See pp. 35-90.]
(25) Swift, by Leslie Stephen. . . . 1882. [2326. b. 35.][See Chapter III.]
(26) Dr. Richard Bentley's Dissertations upon the Epistles of Phalaris. . . . Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Wilhelm Wagner. . . . London. 1883. [2500. e. 15.][In Bohn's Classical Library: a reprint of the ed. published at Berlin in 1874.]
(27) Bentley, by R. C. Jebb. . . . 1889.
[2326. b. 35.][A new ed. of the book first published in the English Men of Letters Series in 1882. See Chapters IV. and V.]
(28) Dean Swift and his Writings, by Gerald P. Moriarty. . . . London. . . . 1893. [10855. f. 17.][See pp. 18-21.]
(29) Jonathan Swift . . . by John Churton Collins. . . . London. 1893. [10856. df. 12.][See pp. 40-3.]
(30) The Life of Jonathan Swift … by Henry Craik (Second Ed., 2 vols.) … 1894. [4902. f. 30.][See Vol I. Chapter III.]
(31) A history of criticism … by George Saintsbury … 1900-1904. [3 vols.] [2308. f. 17.][See Vol. II. pp. 320-2; 401-2; 450-1, 503 and foll.]
(32) The Orrery Papers, edited by the Countess of Cork and Orrery. [2 vols.] … 1903. [09917. d. 5.][See Vol. I. pp. 19-21: the footnote 2 to p. 19 is inaccurate: Charlett was Master of University College, Oxford.]
(33) Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century … Edited by J. E. Spingarn … [2 vols.] … 1908. [11850. pp. 16.][See Vol. I. pp. Ixxxviii.-cvi.]
Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London and Bungay.