The works of Anacreon, translated into English verse; with notes explanatory and poetical. To which are added the odes, fragments, and epigrams of Sappho. With the original Greek, plac'd opposite to the translation. By Mr. Addison.
Anacreon (c.582 - c.485 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1735
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069932
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22], 279, [1] p. : ports. ; 12mo. Running number: 5168. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt double fillet border; blind roll on board edges; gilt fillets on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Anacreon (c.582 - c.485 BCE) Sappho (b.c. mid-7th century BC) Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) Gerard Vandergucht (London 1696 - London 1776)