The Idylliums Of Theocritus Translated From The Greek With Notes Critical And Explanatory [containing] An Essay On Pastoral Poetry

Fawkes, Francis [translator] & Greene, Edward Burnaby [contributor]

Published by printed for the author by Dryden Leach and sold by J and R Tonson J Dodsley, R Baldwin, L Hawes and Co, T Longman, R Horsfield, S Crowder, J Fletcher, T Davies, G Kearsley, Johnson and Davenport, Robinson and Roberts, W Johnston, 1767

About this Item

Half calf, G+. ivi+[x]+[ii]+288pp, engraved frontis, subscribers list & a single page of adverts after the preface & before the main body of the text, signatures L & L3 are cancels, upper board detached, leather a little rubbed & worn, occasional foxing & yellowing of the paper, a fair copy of an uncommon work. The work contains a preface in which Fawkes thanks the help he has received from his peers including Zachary Pearce, John Jortin, and Samuel Johnson. Burnaby furnished the Essay. Francis Fawkes [ 1721 - 1777 ] English poet & translator, who was, in the latter role, considered by his contemporaries to be the best since Alexander Pope. His translations are still selected for modern anthologies to this day, such is their merit. 500 grams.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Idylliums Of Theocritus Translated From The Greek With Notes Critical And Explanatory [containing] An Essay On Pastoral Poetry
• Publisher: printed for the author by Dryden Leach and sold by J and R Tonson J Dodsley, R Baldwin, L Hawes and Co, T Longman, R Horsfield, S Crowder, J Fletcher, T Davies, G Kearsley, Johnson and Davenport, Robinson and Roberts, W Johnston
• Publication Date: 1767
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 500 grams