The Epistles of M T Cicero to M Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero; with.English notes to each Epistle. Together with a Prefatory Dissertation, In which the Authority of the said Epistles is Vindicated.

MIDDLETON, CONYERS [TRANSLATOR]. CICERO

Verlag: London: Published by Richard Manby, 1743

Beschreibung

8vo, pp [4], cxxvii, [1], 195, [1, adverts], with advert leaf before title, bound in contemporary diamond dyed paneled calf, spine with raised bands and old but perhaps slightly later olive label, spine a little rubbed at joints and spine ends, but a fine clean copy, FIRST EDITION; Middleton was himself a well-established classical scholar at Cambridge, previously involved in conspicuous controversy with Bentley, when he entered into debate on authenticity of letters to Brutus, disputed by Tunstall. Middleton would later prove to be in large part right in accepting them into the Cicero canon of letters, and in this work provided for a first time a [parallel] English translation, which would remain the standard one long after. His defense of the book, however, occupies half of it, and is a model of English classical scholarship in the 18th Century. A very pleasing copy of this significant text. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 378

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Titel: The Epistles of M T Cicero to M Brutus, and ...

Verlag: London: Published by Richard Manby

Erscheinungsdatum: 1743

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition