Description
Autograph Letter Signed ‘Geo: Jubb’, making suggestions about his correspondent’s book. 1 page 6 x 7 inches, trimmed at head and foot, minor blemishes. Porters near Barnet, Hertfordshire, 27 December 1759. George Jubb, DD (1717-1787), Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford in 1780; Chancellor of the Diocese of York in 1781. “For I am fully persuaded that the best source of illustration to the SS. is the collation of the Mss. joined to the use of sound & sober Criticism, a talent alas! but rarely to be found.”