Platonis dialogi Graecae et Latine . Ex recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri.
Plato (c.428-c.348 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1816 - 1817
Materials
Leather and paper
Measurements
127 mm (Width); 212 mm (Length); 28 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3087663.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Pars 1 v.1. . 8vo.. has a letter to George Otto Trevelyan pasted in from Henry Jackson (1839-1921), Regius professor of Greek at Cambridge, written 1 Dec. 1903 recommending 'parts of Plato which are not technically philosophical.' Also laid in a letter from Jackson's son to Pauline Dower, daughter of CPT - Charles Phillips Trevelyan, referring to this letter. Manuscript note on flyleaf in GOT's hand refers to a later letter from Jackson (June 7 1915) which made a further recommendation for reading. With manuscript notes in ink copied by GOT from Macaulay's folio edition. Macaulay's dates of reading are in his own hand and inked over by GOT: June 16, 20, 1835; Calcutta March 29 1835; May 13, 14, 16, 17 1837. Marks of shaving soap indicate this was Macaulay's own copy. GOT's dates of reading: Welcombe June 13 1915, March 18 1921, March 1908 Welcombe, June 4 1915 Welcombe, Jan 6 1921 Welcombe, March 1 1921, June 4 1908 Welcombe, Feb 13 1907 Welcombe, Nov 10 1909. Rome (Read in one day), June 1915 Welcombe, Nov 1920 Welcombe, 'October 1921 Wallington. Have read the Euthyphron 6 times in 15 years': Includes a manuscript list of 'My personal favourites in the dialogues of Plato'. Provenance: Internal evidence reveals that this was owned by Lord Macaulay and G.O. Trevelyan.. Binding: Nineteenth-century half leather; marbled boards; titles gilt lettered direct onto spine.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Plato (c.428-c.348 BC) Immanuel Bekker (1785-1871)