william melmoth trans (7 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Slipcase. Unmarked, Clean And Solid Copy. Green Boards. Minor Shelf Wear. Moderate Shelf Wear To Slip Case.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-Libris with usual library matter. Gold leafed upper edge of text. Slight wear on all edges of text with browning on upper and lower edges of text. Cover slightly worn on facing, corners and ends of spine, and slightly dented on lower corners and faded along spine. Else good 440 pp.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library, moderate pencil underlining, worn and frayed spine, light wear to board edges, board corners bumped, a few dog-eared pages. Else sound. 440 pp.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Blind-stamp, bumped board corners and edges. Sound otherwise. 440 pp.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-Libris with usual library matter. Slight browning and wear on all edges of text. Cover slightly worn on corners and upper end of spine. Otherwise VG 552 pp.

hardcover. Condición: Good.

First Melmouth Edition. Collation: ?2,a2,A-2R4. Pagination: [6].319pp. Old sheep, hinges cracked, small pieces lost from spine ends, first advertisement leaf with small clean tear to inner margin, corners opened, some foxing, a few old notes,large margins, good copy. Illustrations: Engraved port. of Cicero on t.p. Melmoth, William, the younger 1710-1799, author and commissioner of bankrupts."he chiefly occupied himself in his retirement in translating Pliny and Cicero. In 1753 he published his translation of Cicero's 'Ad Familiares,' with a careful study of Cicero's character in the running comment. His next workæa translation of the 'De Senectute' appeared in 1773." DNB."We are here presented with one of the finest remains of classical antiquity, in the most elegant form of the English language; and the copius remarks annexed to the essay.discover learning combined with taste, and sentiment with liberality; but such translations as this bring both our language and our learning in their debt." Monthly Review quoted by Moss. Citations: ESTCt138223. Moss I,358.