Butler bought this to help him to make up his mind as to the limits of permissible archaism in translating the Odyssey and the Iliad.
Pilkington, Matthew. A General Dictionary of Painters. By Matthew Pilkington. 2 vols. London, 1829.
Plato. The Republic of Plato. Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. Cambridge, 1852.
H. F. Jones to Butler from the Hotel dell’Angelo, Faido, in 1883: “The signora has given me No. 4, the room into which you came one morning, more than five years ago, and said, ‘Oh, you’ve been reading that damned Republic again!’” Memoir, I. 395.
Rigaud, John Francis. See Vinci, Leonardo da.
Rockstro, W. S. The Rules of Counterpoint. By W. S. Rockstro. London [1882].
Out of which Butler used to do his counterpoint exercises.
Rossetti, William Michael. See Webster, Augusta.
Schoelcher, Victor. The Life of Handel. By Victor Schoelcher. London, 1857.
Referred to in the Memoir of Butler.