The history of the Peloponnesian war, / translated from the Greek of Thucydides. ... By William Smith, ...
Thucydides (460-400 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1753
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3078168
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., [2] leaves of plates (folded) : maps ; 4to. List of subscribers includes The Honourable Philip Yorke, Esq; [Royal Paper copy] and The Honourable Charles Yorke, Esq; [ordinary copy]. Pencil notes against text in Agneta Yorke’s hand. Provenance: eighteenth-century manuscript on free endpaper verso in each vol.: Agneta Yorke [i.e. Agneta Yorke (1740-1820)]. Binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf over boards, gilt spine tooling, brown and black spine labels, single gilt fillet on covers, gilt roll on board edges, red painted edges, olive-green silk bookmarks.
Makers and roles
Thucydides (460-400 BC), author William Smith (1711-1787), translator