The works of Walter Moyle Esq; None of which were ever before Publish’d. In Two Volumes. Vol. II

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Second of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. [2], 390, [22] (last leaves blank). Calf, tooled boards. Red and gilded spine lettering panel, red edges. Plate marked "George Wilson, Esq. Kendal " inside front board. Contains headpieces, engraved initials. Includes (vol. I, pp. 303-304) Moyle’s devastating exposure of the spurious Acta Diurna published by Henry Dodwell (see Bib# 1032627/Fr# 178 in this collection). See E. Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London, 1788, IV, pp. 342 43n (‘a single word [...] detects the forgery’), who also traces the source to Lodovico Vives, and mentions the credulous acceptance, or ‘allowance,’ by Dodwell, J. G. Graevius, and J. G. Heineccius. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.