Guthrie, translator of the Orations, and carefully revis’d.
London: printed for
T. Waller,
m dcc xlii
. [1742.]
PA6308 .D6 G8 1742
First Edition of this translation. 8vo. 235 leaves only, should be 237, 2 leaves, sig. Bb
1 and Bb
2, cut away, the first and last leaves with the publisher’s advertisement.
Rebound by the Library of Congress in half red morocco with the 1815 book plate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig.
I and T.
For other works by William Guthrie, see the Index.
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Demetrius Phalereus de Elocutione.
Gr.
Lat.
Foul.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 156, no. 23, as above.
DEMETRIUS
of PHALERUM.
Δημητριου Φαληρεως περ(`ι) Ερμηνειας. Demetrii Phalerei De Elocutione, sive, Dictione Rhetorica. In hac editione, contextus
Graecus ex optimis Exemplaribus emendatur, Versio
Latina passim ab erroribus repurgatur; & loca à Demetrio laudata, quae hactenus
Graecè tantum extabant, nunc primum
Latinitate donatur . . .
Glasguae: Ex Officina
Roberti Foulis.
mdccxliii
. [1743.]
PA3948 .D5 1743
8vo. 100 leaves,
Greek and
Latin texts on opposite pages.
Graesse II, 356.
Ebert 5924.
A copy in the Library of Congress has been rebound and has lost all marks of provenance. The marginal annotations in Greek bear a strong resemblance to the Greek characters of Jefferson and could be by him.
Jefferson ordered a copy (with a copy of Menander and Philemon, q.v. no. 4578, and other works) from
Armand Koenig of Strassburg in a letter dated June 29, 1788. Koenig sent some of the books, but in a letter dated July 24 explained that Demetrius Phalereus and
an edition of Aesop needed by Jefferson “me manquent”.
Demetrius of Phalerum, b. c. 360 B. C. was made absolute governor of Athens by Cassander. In 307, after Poliorcetes had taken Athens Demetrius
fled to Boeotia, and in 297 became librarian at Alexandria. He died in disgrace under Philadelphus.
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17
Sheridan on Elocution.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 156, no. 24, as above.
SHERIDAN,
Thomas.
A Course of Lectures on Elocution: Together with two Dissertations on Language; and some other Tracts Relative to those Subjects.
A New Edition. By Thomas Sheridan, A.M.
London: Printed by Assignment from the Executors of
James Dodsley, for
C. Dilly . . .
1787.
8vo. A copy of this edition was not available; the above title was taken from the edition of 1798 a copy of which is in the
Library of Congress.
This edition not in Lowndes, and not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Thomas Sheridan, 1719-1788, Irish actor, was the father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The first edition of this work was published in 1763,
and was frequently reprinted.
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J. 18
Mason on Poetical & Prosaic numbers & Elocution.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 156, no. 25, as above.
MASON,
John.
Essays on Poetical and Prosaic Numbers, and Elocution. The
Second Edition.
