Richard Bentley

01 January 1708 - 01 January 1782

Standard Name: Bentley, Richard,, 1708 - 1782

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By June 1753

Thomas Gray 's Poems were published by Dodsley , with designs by Richard Bentley the younger.

Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.

8: 477

November 1753

Horace Walpole penned a pornographic poem, The Judgment of Solomon, in which two women dispute the ownership not of a baby but a gigantic phallus (with man attached).

Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.

, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49.

222-4

Texts

Gray, Thomas, and Richard, 1708 - 1782 Bentley. Odes by Mr. Gray. Printed by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill for R. and J. Dodsley.