William melmoth trans (6 risultati)

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library, moderate pencil underlining, worn and frayed spine, light wear to board edges, board corners bumped, a few dog-eared pages. Else sound. 440 pp.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Blind-stamp, bumped board corners and edges. Sound otherwise. 440 pp.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-Libris with usual library matter. Slight browning and wear on all edges of text. Cover slightly worn on corners and upper end of spine. Otherwise VG 552 pp.

hardcover. Condizione: Good.

Leather. Condizione: Good Only. First edition. The scarce first edition of Pliny the Younger's letters; translated from the Latin by William Melmoth. The scarce first edition of this work. Bound in contemporary calf with the original half titles as called for. Signatures run as follows: *2, a4, A-Z8, Aa; *2, Aa2-Aa8, Bb-Uu8, X4. Collated, complete. Born during Nero's reign, Pliny the Younger was a lawyer and magistrate of Ancient Rome. With no surviving memoire, Pliny's letters are a fantastic record of the professional relationships between legal officials and the imperial office of Rome. Included in this volume is official correspondence between Pliny and Emperor Trajan. This edition published anonymously with the translation attributed to English religious author and lawyer, William Melmoth. ESTC T132374 Bound in contemporary calf. Externally, generally sound. Rubbing to spine and board extremities, most prominent to head and tail of spine with some loss. Cracking to joints, with cords exposed at spine bands, more significant to vol II. Promintent chipping to spine label. The odd marks to boards. Hinges strained and fragile. Bookplate to front paste downs. Offsetting to end papers. Ink inscription to upper front frees. Internally, generally firmly bound with some straining. Bleed through due to paper type and printing ink to some leaves. Good Only. None (illustratore). book. …

First Melmouth Edition. Collation: ?2,a2,A-2R4. Pagination: [6].319pp. Old sheep, hinges cracked, small pieces lost from spine ends, first advertisement leaf with small clean tear to inner margin, corners opened, some foxing, a few old notes,large margins, good copy. Illustrations: Engraved port. of Cicero on t.p. Melmoth, William, the younger 1710-1799, author and commissioner of bankrupts."he chiefly occupied himself in his retirement in translating Pliny and Cicero. In 1753 he published his translation of Cicero's 'Ad Familiares,' with a careful study of Cicero's character in the running comment. His next workæa translation of the 'De Senectute' appeared in 1773." DNB."We are here presented with one of the finest remains of classical antiquity, in the most elegant form of the English language; and the copius remarks annexed to the essay.discover learning combined with taste, and sentiment with liberality; but such translations as this bring both our language and our learning in their debt." Monthly Review quoted by Moss. Citations: ESTCt138223. Moss I,358.…