Family Classical Library Collection

Nine smart volumes from the Family Classical Library. Nine volumes. Family Classical Library or English translations of the most valuable Greek and Latin Classics. This set contains: The Orations of Demosthenes, 1830. Complete in two volumes. Translated by Thomas Leland, an Irish Anglican priest, a historian, translator and academic. Volume II also includes Sallust, 1830, and is illustrated with two portrait plates. Collated complete. Translated by William Rose, a British academic. Heodotus, 1830. No. VII. Volume III of III only. Translated by William Beloe, an English divine and miscellaneous writer. Horace, 1831. No. XVII. Volume I of II only. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Collated complete. Translated by Philip Francis, an Irish-born British politician and pamphleteer. Plutarch, 1832. No. XXVIII. Volume VI of VI only. Illustrated with eight plates. Collated complete. Translated by John and William Langhorne, English clergymen, poets, translators, editors and authors. Juvenal and Persius, 1831. No. XIX. New edition. With a portrait frontispiece. Collated complete. Translated by Reverend Charles Badham, an English classical philologist, textual critic, headmaster, and university professor. With an appendix by Dr. Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Hesiod & Bion and Moschus, Sappho and Musaeus & Lycophron, 1832. Translated by Sir Charles Abraham Elton, an English officer in the British Army and an author, F. Fawkes, and Viscount Royston, a British traveller and politician. Ovid, 1833. No. XL. Volume I of II only. With a portrait frontispiece. Collated complete. Translated by Dryden, Pope, Congreve, Addison, and others. Cicero, 1833. No. XLIV. Volumes III of III only. Translated by Duncan, Cockman, and Melmoth. Previously held in the library of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Farrer Acton. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges with the odd small mark to the boards. Number label to the head of the spine of volume No. XIX. Front hinge starting but firm to volume I and no. XXVIII. Rear hinge starting but firm to No. XVII. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting predominantly to the first and last few pages. Minor age toning to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Pencil inscriptions to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown of the odd volume. Good. …