Poetical Translations. Volume the Second, Containing Cook's Hesiod; Fawkes's Theocritus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, Muscoeus, & Apollonius Rhodius; C_'s Coluthus Lycopolites; Creech's Lucretius, & Grainger's Tibullus.

Cooke, Thomas and others.

Published by John & Arthur Arch, London, and Bell & Bradfute and T. Mundell & Co., Edinburgh, no date. Dedication by Thomas Cooke to the Duke of Argyll and Greenwich dated 1728.

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8vo (24x15cm), hardback, prelims + 827pp + 11pp of publisher's notes. Goodish condition. Half leather with dark green spine and corners, some gilt lines and borders to pastedowns, 5 pairs of raised bands at spine, pattern and lettering blind-stamped to spine but quite faded. Green covered boards quite rubbed, green page edges a little marked and aged. Marbled endpapers. Remnants of bookplate at front pastedown, name pencilled on verso of free front endpaper, hinge cracked along verso of free front endpaper with page evidently missing, some water stains to prelims and to title page, all but gone by p1. Some foxing, page edges age-toned and sunned. Text in two columns throughout, clear and legible. Some offsetting. Edges chipped and worn. Pictures available on request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poetical Translations. Volume the Second, Containing Cook's Hesiod; Fawkes's Theocritus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, Muscoeus, & Apollonius Rhodius; C_'s Coluthus Lycopolites; Creech's Lucretius, & Grainger's Tibullus.
• Publisher: John & Arthur Arch, London, and Bell & Bradfute and T. Mundell & Co., Edinburgh, no date. Dedication by Thomas Cooke to the Duke of Argyll and Greenwich dated 1728.