BENTLEY, Richard (1662-1742). A Dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris. With an answer to the objections of the Honourable Charles Boyle. London: J.H. for Henry Mortlock, 1699. 8° (196 x 119mm.). Contemporary calf, panelled in blind, contemporary light brown morocco lettering-piece on spine (joints split, spine chipped at head and foot). Provenance: F.Gregor (signature and marginalia); G.W.F.Gregor (armorial bookplate). Enlarged edition, constituting the first publication of Bentley's response to Boyle's Dr.Bentley's dissertations... examin'd (1698), and 'a permanent masterpiece of literature': D.N.B.; Wing B-1929; Bartholomew 109.; Richardi Bentleii et doctorum virorum epistolae, partim mutuae... Edited by Charles Burney. London: [privately printed by] William Bulmer, 1807. Large 4° (316 x 248mm.). Two engraved portraits (spotted). Contemporary purple straight-grained morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (joints worn). Provenance: Robert Nares (1753-1829, the editor's compliments slip pasted onto front blank, with presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION limited to 200 copies printed for presentation, of which 50 are on large paper. Bartholemew 279; Dr.Bentley's proposals for printing a new edition of the Greek testament, and St.Hierom's Latin version. With a full answer to all the remarks of a late pamphleteer. London: for J.Knapton, 1721. 4° (250 x 186mm.). (Title and some margins somewhat soiled, some corners curled). Stabbed but unbound. FIRST EDITION. Bartholomew 78; Bartholomew's Richard Bentley... A bibliography, small 4°, Cambridge, 1908; and 49 works by or about Bentley, including the collected edition of Bentley's eight sermons issued with a general title The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism..., small 4°, London, 1693 [Bartholomew p.6], and Bartholomew 34; 92; 97; 121; 205; 208; 212 and 225. (53)