AESCHYLUS. The Tragedies. English translation by Robert Potter. xxviii, 519 pages, including half-title;...

AESCHYLUS. The Tragedies. English translation by Robert Potter. xxviii, 519 pages, including half-title; lacks the 6-page subscribers' list. 4to, 267x207 mm, modern panelled calf; show-through of text through most of volume, repaired clean tear in upper outer corner of Z1. Contemporary owner's inscription ("John Hope / Advocate") on half-title. Norwich: J. Crouse, 1777

Estimate $300 - 500

first collected edition in english, the first of Potter's translations of the Greek tragedians. Hoffmann I, 50. Without the commentary by Potter published as a continuation the following year.

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