A Dissertation on Reading the Classics, and forming a Just Style. Written in the Year 1709, and addressed to the Right Honourable, John Lord Roos, the present Marquis of Granby by Felton, Henry - 1713

London: Printed for Jonah Bowyer. Fair. 1713. First Edition. Leather. (2), xx, (14), 228 pages; Contents complete and unmarked in original full calf binding; lower edge of text block damp rippled, tide marks at mid page in first few signature, ffep and title page stained along bottom; binding has damage at same lower area: leather shrunken and pulled away from boards, split at lower spine and missing leather in some areas. An affordable example of this noted work on Classical Studies. OCLC 9489571 Signed in the plate at the end "Henry Felton, Belvoir, Dec. 29. 1710." The author Henry Felton (1679–1740) was an English clergyman and academic. In 1708 Felton undertook the care of the English church at Amsterdam, but returned to England in the following year, and became domestic chaplain to John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, an office which he retained under three successive dukes. His Dissertation on Reading the Classics, and forming a just Style, a work that he had written for his pupil, John, Lord Roos, later the 3rd Duke of Rutland was quite popular and passed through several editions between this first in 1713 and 1753. [Note: D.N.B. erroneously describes this work being first published in 1711; however, the diary of antiquary Thomas Hearne notes in May 1713 that the work has just been published.] Samuel Johnson referred to Felton as a source for several entries in his dictionary. "[Felton] dealt thus with translation, with paraphrase, with the device of 'adapting Ancient Authors to Modern Times. and making Horace, Juvenal, Persius &c. not only speak our Language, but know our Manners.'" Felton quote on translating classical texts: "Where translation is impracticable, they may paraphrase. —— But it is intolerable, that under a pretence of paraphrasing and translating, a way should be suffered of treating authors to a manifest disadvantage." .