Michael MaittaireCritiques

Continued by six additional volumes. A list of incunables.

Review from Boswell's Life of Johnson:
"He wrote Latin verses from time to time, and published a set in his old age, which he called 'Senitia,' in which he shews so little learning or taste in writing, as to make Carteret a dactyl."

Mattaire's account of the Stephani is a heavy book. He seems to have been a puzzle-headed man, with a large share of scholarship, but with little geometry or logick in his head, without method, and possessed of little genius. He wrote Latin verses from time to time, and published a set in his old age, which he called ' Senilia ;' in which he shews so little learning or taste in writing, as to make Carteret a dactyl'. Boswell, Life of Johnson