The Idyllia, epigrams, and fragments, of Theocritus, Bion and Moschus; and the elegies of Tyrtæus. Translated from the Greek into English verse, with dissertations and notes, by the Rev. Richard Polwhele.
Theocritus (c.308-c.240 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217995
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],350p., plates : ill. ; 17cm (12mo). Without the series half-title and plates. 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
Theocritus (c.308-c.240 BC) Bion, of Phlossa near Smyrna (fl.100 BC) Moschus of Syracuse (fl.150 BC) Tyrtaeus (7th century BC) Richard Polwhele (1760-1838)