BELLENDEN (WILLIAM). [BELOE (WILLIAM)]. [PARR (SAMUEL)]: - A Free Translation of the Preface to Bellendenus; Containing Animated Strictures on the Great Political Characters of the Present Time.
London: Printed by Stafford and Davenport, for T. Payne and Son..., 1788. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iii] - xii, 159 [160 blank], early 19th century half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine (a little nicked); lacks half-title. With the armorial bookplate of Benjamin Edward Hall on the front paste-down end-paper and the oval binder's ticket of C. Godwin, Bath in the upper left-hand corner. Samuel Parr (1747 - 1825) published in 1787 an edition of a work by William Bellenden (c. 1550 - 1633?) entitled De tribus luminibus Romanorum libri sexdecim but using the characters of Burke, Fox, and Lord North. William Beloe, one of Parr's pupils, translated the work, but Parr did not think much of it, as it had been made without his authorization: "I avoided all praise upon the translation, because he very often mistook the meaning, and never represented, the meaning of my words...." A note in a contemporary hand on the front free end-paper quotes from Bibliotheca Parriana (1827) to the effect that in Parr's own copy of the translation about the "notorious William Beloe." There are notes in the same hand on the recto of the leaf following the last page of text.
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