Author: PSEUDO PHALARIS.
Title: Phalaridos Akragantinon tyrannou epistolai. Agrigentinorum Tyranni. Epistolae. Ex MSS Recensuit, Version, Annotationibus & Vita insuper Authoris Donvavit Car. Boyle, ex. AEde Christi.
Description: Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano, Impensis Stephani Fletcher..., 1728. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 112 mms., pp. [xxviii], 154 [155 - 158 index], fine engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title-page, contemporary calf, spine gilt to a fleur-de-lys motif, morocco label; slight wear to front joint, small nicks to top and base of spine, but generally a very good copy. Given that ESTC records at least 40 locations for this epistolary novel in Greek with Latin translation beneath in notes, one would expect to find a large corpus of scholarly work. The editor/author, the Jacobite conspirator, Charles Boyle, Fourth Earl of Orrery (1674 - 1731) made a name for himself in the dispute between the ancients and moderns, so memorably satarized in Swift's Battle of the Books. The attribution to Phalaris, the tyrant of Akragas (now Agrigento) in Sicily, from approximately 570 to 554 BC, is, of course, false. The Dean of Christ Church asked Boyle to translate the Epistles of Phalaris (spurious) led him into a controversy with the scholar Richard Bentley at the end of the 17th century.

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