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MORRITT, J.B.S., Esq.

A VINDICATION OF HOMER AND OF THE ANCIENT POETS AND HISTORIANS, who have recorded the Siege and Fall of Troy. In Answer to two late publications of Mr Bryant. With a map and plates.

£ 950.00

York. Printed by W. Blanchard for T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies. London. 1798. pp. (ii), 124. Map and 5 acquatint plates, all folded. 4to. Half modern calf, marbled boards. 1st edition. ESTC T2297. J. Bryant's publications were entitled A dissertation concerning the war of Troy , and the expedition of the Grecians, as described by Homer, shewing That no such Expedition was ever undertaken, and that no such City of Phrygia existed 1796?; and Observations upon a treatise, entitles a Description of the Palin of Troy, by Monsieur le Chevalier. 1795. John Bacon Sawrey Morritt (1771- 1843) traveller and classical scholar inherited a large fortune including the Rokeby estate and was the owner of the Rokeby venus now in the National Gallery. He was also a friend of Sir Walter Scott, who dedicated his poem Rokeby to Morritt. ODNB Order Number: 44271

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