Xenophon

1762 · réf. AQ26029 — Glasguae i.e. Glasgow: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1762. In four volumes. Parallel Greek and Latin text. First seven words of the title transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary vellum contrasting brown calf lettering-pieces marbled edges. Rubbed a trifle marked and discoloured loss cracking and chipping to spines/lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers worm-track to front endpapers of Vol. I else internally clean and crisp. Later inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I. An esteemed edition of the works of Xenophon with the text in Greek and Latin finely printed by Foulis of Glasgow; containing the texts of Hellenica from the 1690 edition with commentary by Church of England clergyman and educationist Edward Wells 1667-1721 and classical scholar Thomas Hutchinson's bap. 1698 d. 1769 highly regarded edition of the Cyropaedia 1727. Another edition entirely in Greek appeared in the same year. John Taylor Coleridge 1790-1876 nephew of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge judge and sometime editor of the Quarterly Review. ESTC T139180. 8vo. In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis hardcover