Thucydidis De bello peloponnesiaco libri octo. . Optimorum librorum fidem editos explanavit Ernestus Fridericus Poppo.
Thucydides (460-400 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1843 - 1851
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3087891
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v. . 8vo.. Bound in two volumes. Imperfect: title page of I.i and several other leaves mutilated. Page 216 in II.ii is misnumbered 116. With armorial stamp on verso of several title pages: 'Vertrag vom 13 Mai [184?]'. Copious manuscript notes and schoolboy drawings and doodles throughout. One such doodle (p.73 of II ii) has the superscript: 'Alice opening a box of soldiers. An anticipation of the holidays. What a child I was!' This volume was read by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928) while at prep school and Harrow manuscript on flyleaf: '20 chap a day Wed. July 4th 1855' and under in a later hand 'when I worked so hard for trials, and was so disappointed at coming out fourteenth. But the work won me the Gregory scholarship a year later on'. Page 68 of I i: 'These crosses in the text seem to represent the portion each boy was called on to translate.' P.85 of I.ii: 'I hate Harris' 'I detest Harris'; p.87: 'I HATE HARRIS'; under: ''Poor little boy that I was; what a bad time I had with that able, and, (as I now know) not unkindly master'. Reread many times, e.g. Jan 20 1915 'sixty three years after I was reading it in the same volume at Harrow'. Other dates of reading include Sept 29 1922 'our wedding day'; March 14 1916 'Germans sent terms of peace to America through Colonel House: - and what terms!' 'Finished this old book April 4 1916 at Welcombe. Almost everything reminds me of the most depressed and unsatisfactory period of my life, when I was the last boy in a form of 35, 63 years ago. What a mere child I was!'. Provenance: manuscript on flyleaf of first volume: 'Trevelyan May 1852'. manuscript of vol II: GO Trevelyan Friday July 6th 1855.. Binding: Half leather; gilt lettered onto spine: Thucydides Poppo.
Makers and roles
Thucydides (460-400 BC) Ernst Frederic Poppo (1794-1866)