Search Results: a dissertation on reading the classics by felton henry

London: Printed for B. Motte, 1730. 4th. HB. Written in the Year 1709, and Addressed to the Right Honourable John Lord Roos, the Present Duke of Rutland". Full brown tooled leather, 12 mo., 243 pp. Front cover detached, but present. 5 Raised bands on spine. Edge wear, wear to corners, loss top and bottom of spine. Ffep has 1/4" hole in center. No marks in book, binding solid. The fourth edition, with some alterations and additions. Book condition Good-.

London 1730 4th with some alterations and additions, B. Motte. 12mo., xxvi, (18pp.), 243pp., removed from original binding and now in later wraps. VG, light foxing and toning. .

London: Printed For Jonah Bowyer. Fair. 1713. First Edition. Leather. (2), x, (14), 228 pages; London: Fair. 1713. First Edition. (2) , xx, (14) , 228 pages; Contents complete and unmarked in original full calf binding; lower edge of text block damp rippled, tide marks at mid page in first few signature, ffep and title page stained along bottom; binding has damage at same lower area: leather shrunken and pulled away from boards, split at lower spine and missing leather in some areas. An affordable example of this noted work on Classical Studies. OCLC 9489571 Signed in the plate at the end "Henry Felton, Belvoir, Dec. 29. 1710." The author Henry Felton (1679-1740) was an English clergyman and academic. In 1708 Felton undertook the care of the English church at Amsterdam, but returned to England in the following year, and became domestic chaplain to John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, an office which he retained under three successive dukes. His Dissertation on Reading the Classics,… Read More

London: Printed for Jonah Bowyer, 1713 First edition. Contemporary panelled calf. Twelvemo. Corners rubbed. A fine, unrestored copy. Much of this popular little book is devoted to the author's theories of education in general, and the art of teaching in particular, as well as rhetoric and literary style. There are also remarks on such modern writers as Swift (his favorite), Addison, Dryden, Prior, Milton, Otway, Cowley, and Denham; the preface, which is new to this edition, contains a complimentary reference to Pope as "the ingenious author of the Essay on Criticism." Of particular interest are Felton's remarks on the distinctions between translation, paraphrase, and imitation, distinctions of great concern to poets of the Restoration and early 18th-century.

London: Printed for Jonah Bowyer, 1713. First Edition, signed at the end "Henry Felton, Belvoir, Dec. 29. 1710.", [2], xx, [14], 228 pp., contemporary morocco, gilt, rebacked with original gilt spine, all edges gilt, with the bookplate of George Manners (1723-1783), son of the third Duke of Rutland.

1718. The Third Edition, corrected. London, Printed for Jonah Bowyer at the Rose in Ludgate-street, 1718. Small-Octavo. XX, [6], 230 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full leather with a new spine in the style of the period. Original spine-label preserved. Excellent restoration by a master-bookbindery. Very good condition with some signs of external wear. Includes chapters like: - The Necessity of Education - The Way to Knowledge - The Greeks excell in Tragedy - Of Comedy (Menander and Terence, Plautus and Aristophanes) - Homer and Virgil - The Opinion that Homer wrote loosly [sic] and without any premeditated Scheme, considered and refuted - Virgil preferred to Hesiod - A complaint against Schools considered - Schools vindicated - Complaint against commentators - Dr.Busby's Opinion of the meaner sort - The finest Wits should comment on the finest Authors - The Art of Teaching - The true way of remembring and imitating the Ancients - The Art of Writing well - Learning dressed to… Read More