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ANACREON. The odes of anacreon, translated from the greek into english verse, with notes.

Yarmouth. Printed by John Beart, for B. Crosby and Co. London, 1804. Second edition.
8vo. 27, [1], 144pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary olive green half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, later book-label of Ed Grabhorn to FEP, offsetting to title-page, slight damp-staining to rear blank fly-leaf and RFEP.
A provincially published translation by physician and writer Thomas Girdlestone (1758-1822) of the verse of Greek lyric poet Anacreon; first printed in 1803.
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref: 16787