Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
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

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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.