8vo. In four volumes. Parallel Greek and Latin text. First seven words of the title transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary vellum, contrasting brown calf lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Rubbed, a trifle marked and discoloured, loss, cracking, and chipping to spines/lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, worm-track to front endpapers of Vol. I, else internally clean and crisp. Later inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I.

An esteemed edition of the works of Xenophon, with the text in Greek and Latin, finely printed by Foulis of Glasgow; containing the texts of Hellenica, from the 1690 edition with commentary by Church of England clergyman and educationist Edward Wells (1667-1721), and classical scholar Thomas Hutchinson's (bap. 1698, d. 1769) highly regarded edition of the Cyropaedia (1727). Another edition, entirely in Greek, appeared in the same year.

John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), nephew of the Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, judge, and sometime editor of the Quarterly Review.