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COLERIDGE FAMILY COPY

XENOPHON

Ta tou Xenoph?ntos Hell?nika; kai ho Ag?silaos. Xenophontis Graecorum res gestae; et Agesilaus..

Glasguae [i.e. Glasgow]. In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1762.

8vo. 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.

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