The works of Hesiod, translated by Thomas Cooke. Coluthus's Rape of Helen, by Mr. Meen. And Eupolis's Hymn to the Creator, by Charles Wesley.
Hesiod (c.8th century BC)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217975
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],252p., plates : ill. ; 12mo. Without the series half-title and plates in this copy. Vol. 1 of series inscribed: 100 vols 18/-/ [i.e. for whole series]. Old Lyme Park library shelfmark label: Case C. Shelf 5. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: nineteenth-century imitation green morocco (sheep); gilt tooled; gilt lettered and numbered spines: British poets ... Uniform with series.
Makers and roles
Hesiod (c.8th century BC) Colluthus of Lycopolis (fl.500 AD) Eupolis (c. 446 – 411 BC) Thomas Cooke (1703-1756) Henry Meen Charles Wesley (1707 - London 1788)