Athenian letters: . or, the epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian war. Containing the history of the times, in dispatches to the ministers of state at the Persian Court. Besides letters on various subjects between him and his friends. Vol. I. (-IV).
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720 - 1790)
Category
Books
Date
1741 - 1743
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3108312
Summary
Bibliographic description
8vo.. Former shelfmark: Bb.8.1-4. Provenance: Inscription in ink on front free-endpaper: '-These letters were begun in June 1739 /and were all written and printed off by / March 1742/3. The two first volumes were / printed very nearly one after the other in 1741, / and the two last Volumes were not sent to / the press, till the scheme was completed in July 1742 tho' / a few letters were thrown in during the working / of the press'. - A second inscription follows: 'The four Volumes of this / Book belong to my Wife the / Countess of Hardwicke. / H.' - A few authorial corrections in the text. - Errata slip attached at end with additional cameorrections in ink. Binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco, gold-framed, gold-lettered spines.
Makers and roles
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720 - 1790)