The tragedies of Sophocles, translated from the Greek. With notes historical, moral and critical; wherein several mistakes of editors and the old scholiasts are corrected, and the true sense of the author cleared. To which is prefix'd, a preface; containing I. A defence of tragick poetry; wherein is occasionally shewn, how some modern poets have transgressed the established laws of poetry which the ancients observed. II. An historical account of its rise and progress. III. A comparison of the ancient tragedians with each other. By George Adams, A. B. Late of St. John's College in Cambridge. ...
Sophocles (c. 496-405 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1729
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3072941
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : port. ; 8vo. Running number: 5263. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Faint ink inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "IWe[?] R2voll". Price in pencil, scribbled over in ink, on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "-5-". Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt double fillet border; blind roll pattern on board edges; gilt fillets and vol. numbers (twice, one where missing title label should be) on spines. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Sophocles (c. 496-405 BC) George Adams (c.1698 - c.1768), editor Gerard Vandergucht (London 1696 - London 1776), engraver (printmaker)