_Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy_ (Vol. ii., p. 56.).--JARLTZBERG
is wrong in supposing that Richard Viscount Preston's translation
appeared _first_ in 1712. I have now before me an edition in 8vo.
"London: printed by J.D. for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black
Swan, in Paternoster row; and Francis Hildyard, bookseller in York,
MDCXCV." Horace Walpole, in his _Royal and Noble Authors_, states that
the publication in 1712 was the "_second_ edition corrected;" and Mr.
Park says in a note, that the first edition was in 1695, 8vo.