De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum.

Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii Habitæ a Roberto Lowth A. M. college novi nuper socio, et poeticæ publico prælectore … … Oxonii : E Typographeo Clarendoniano, M DCC LIII [Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1753]. First edition. Quarto (275 x 230 mm), contemporary full calf, boards ruled in gilt (a little scuffed and marked), spine with raised bands and contrasting leather title-pieces lettered in gilt; front pastedown with engraved portrait of Lowth laid in; pp. [4], 367, [28]; text in Latin with some Hebrew; light spotting to preliminaries, otherwise a very good example in contemporary binding.

Lowth’s major treatise on Hebrew sacred poetry, for which he was awarded a Doctorate in Divinity by Oxford University.

Robert Lowth FRS (1710-1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, Oxford Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar, A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762).