A vindication of the authenticity of the Parian Chronicle, in answer to a dissertation on that subject, lately published

[4], 178pp, [6]. With an engraved plate depicting the Parian Chronicle. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, substantial surface loss to spine, lettering-piece working loose, light damp-staining to boards. Upper hinge cracked, ink inscription to FEP reading 'Ex Libris Jacob Hebard', ink inscription of '(?) Parker Nov 3. 1858' to head of title, offsetting from plate. A reply by biblical scholar John Hewlett (1762-1844) to the assertions of Reverend Joseph Robertson (1726-1802) made in The Parian Chronicle (London, 1788), which sought to prove that the Greek antiquity under discussion, a marble stele in the collection of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, was in actuality a forgery. Hewlett, through discussion of similar fraudulent pieces, seeks to exculpate the artefact - the surviving fragments of which now reside in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. ESTC T107432. Size: 8vo in 4s.