FAIR CONDITION
This sale is for an early
NINETEENTH CENTURY leather and hardback edition containing “The Odes of Anacreon,” “The Epigrams of Anacreon,” translated
from the Greek into English “The Life of
Sappho,” “The Works of Sappho,”
translated from the Greek into English, “The
Lives of Bion & Moschus,” “The
Idylliums of Bion,” translated from the Greek into English, “The Idylliums of Moschus,” and “The Loves of Hero and Leander,”
translated from the Greek of Musaeus
into English.
It was published in or before
circa 1832 (date of inscription).
The
book is missing the title page and the xi page first section, The Life of Anacreon,
and the last three pages of the index, but I have established that this is a
scarce 328 page work:
“The Works of Anacreon,
Sappho Bion, Moschus and Musaeus” translated from the original Greek into
English, by Francis Fawkes, M.A.
The
text pages match an edition published in MDDCLXXXIX [1789] second edition
printed for J. Walker, J. Wallis, and J. Binns, of Leeds (this may be a later
edition but is of the late Georgian era.
Francis Fawkes (1721–1777) was an English poet and translator.
Anacreon (c. 582 – c. 485
BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs
and hymns.
Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric
poet born on the island of Lesbos sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC and it is
said that she died around 570 BC. The
bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout
antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured.
Little
is known of the Greek poets Bion of
Smyrna who flourished around 100 BC, and Moschus born at Syracuse who flourished about 150 BC.
Hero and Leander is the Greek
myth relating the story of Hero , a priestess
of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos
(today's Dardanelles), and Leander (, a young man
from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait. Leander fell in love
with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to be with her. Hero
would light a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way.
The
section The Odes of Anacreon, which
makes up about half of the book, includes 70 odes.
The book measures 7 inches x 4.25
inches and has 322 pages (which are gilt edged to the top rims).
The book is in very good internally
neat condition for its age, save a couple of pages in the life of Sappo section
have a small closed tear to the side rim.
The hardback cover has a missing backstrip (leather outer spine) and the
leather corners are scuffed, with a previous owner’s inscriptions at the front
(including a signature dated 1832), and no other ink or pencil markings in the book. The
binding is good save the missing pages mentioned above (it has been rebound
with the missing pages, but not recently).
There is no dust-jacket.
A good reading copy of this wonderful
early NINETEENTH CENTURY edition.
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