["Canne's Bibles were first printed at Amsterdam, 1647, 1662, and 1664;
in London, 1682, 1684, 1698: these are all pocket volumes. Then again
in Amsterdam, 4to., 1700. At Edinburgh by Watkins in 1747, and by
Kincaid in 1766; after which there followed editions very coarsely and
incorrectly printed. They are all, excepting that of 1647, in my
collection. Kincaid's, 1766, 2 vols. nonpareil, in beautiful condition,
bound in green morocco, cost me five shillings. That of 1747, by
Watkins, not in such fine condition, two shillings. SIGMA can readily
imagine the value of Kincaid's edition 1756, by comparison with those
of 1747 and 1766. If any of your readers could assist me to procure the
first edition, 1647, I should be greatly obliged.--G. OFFOR."]
_Dryden and Luke Milbourne._--Among the "Quarrels of Authors," I do not
find that between _glorious John_ and this reverend gentleman. In a
poetical paraphrase of _The Christian's Pattern_, by the latter (8vo.,
1697), he shows unmistakeable evidence of having been lately skinned by the
_witty tribe_, which I take to mean Dryden and his _atheistical crew_. I am
aware that Milbourne invited the attack by his flippant remarks upon the
English Virgil, but I know not in which piece of Dryden's to look for it.