[722] Mr. Ilive the elder is named in Samuel Negus’s list of Printers, published by Bowyer in 1724, as one of those “said to be high flyers”. He was a benefactor to Zion College, and printed the classical catalogue of their library from the letter P.
[723] Marius de Calasio. Concordantiæ Bibliorum Hebr. et Lat. edente Guil. Romaine, 4 vols., Lond. 1747, folio.
[724] Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 130.
[725] “Emboldened by his first adventure, he determined to become the public teacher of infidelity. For this purpose he hired the use of Carpenters’ Hall, where for some time he delivered his Orations, which consisted chiefly of scraps from Tindal and other similar writers” (Chalmers’ Biog. Dict., xix, 228).
[726] The Book of Jasher. With Testimonies and Notes explanatory of the Text. To which is prefixed various Readings. Translated into English from the Hebrew, by Alcuin of Britain, who went a Pilgrimage into the Holy Land, etc. Printed in the year 1751. 4to. The fraud was immediately detected and exposed. The work was reprinted, without acknowledgment and with some variations, at Bristol in 1829, by a Rev. C. R. Bond. Both editions are now rare.
[727] Dissert., p. 65.
[728] These are enumerated in Gough’s British Topography, i, 637.
[729] British Topography, i, 597.