BOYLE, ROBERT.

Some Considerations Touching the Style Of the H. Scriptures. Extracted from several parts of a Discourse (concerning divers Particulars belonging to the Bible). Written divers Years since to a Friend.

London, Henry Herringman, 1663. Small 8vo. Cont. full calf, blindtooled borders. Spine ends defective, back and corners somewhat worn. Old names on title. (42),252 pp. (should be 254 pp., last leaf lacks). Some traces of use, but internally fairly good.

Second edition. The first published 1661. - Fulton No. 42: "The Style of the Scriptures, the first of his devotional works, is a remarkable forerunner of modern higher criticism which is said to have begin nearly a century later with Astruc (1773)."

Order-nr.: 29088