An Essay on Virgil’s Celebrated Gates of Sleep. Containing besides a very particular Enquiry into this Intricate subject, as well as into Homer’s similar Gates, a solution of Virgil’s Falso damnati crimine mortis; and at the close of it a true key to the Aeneis.
1743. London: Printed for J. Robinson at the Golden-Lyon in Ludgate-street, MDCCXLIII [1743]. Small 4to, [2], 105, [1]pp. A-N4, O2. Marbled wrappers, red speckled text block, slight rubbing to wrappers and joints. § First edition. An early work by the English minister Theodore Delafaye (c.1703-1772), later the rector of the..... More