DR. BENTLEY: A study in academic scarlet.
Pp. 304(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates, 1 text illustration, pictorial endpapers, appendices, index; demy 8vo; dust wrapper, lightly browned, edges rubbed and split, with some loss at head and foot of backstrip; Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1965. First edition. *Richard Bentley (1662-1742) was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. A notable classical scholar, he was also a friend and champion of Isaac Newton, a pioneer of the natural sciences at Cambridge, and the 'second founder' of the University Press. Item #148724
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