[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1785 ed. of Aristotle's "De Poetica" (with Gray's "Elegy" in Greek verse)

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Aristotle. ARISTOTELIS DE POETICA LIBER, Textu Gulstoniano; cum
Praelectione, Versione, et Notis Editoris, Gulielmi Cooke... Accedit
Elegia Grayiana Graece. Cambridge: Typis Academicis Excudebat J.
Archdeacon... 1785. 2 parts in 1. (6),xl,(2),176pp. Text in Greek &
Latin. Cont. calf, some old soiling & rubbing, red calf spine label .
Old faded water stain at top blank margin of final
5 leaves.   $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
ESTC only records 2 holdings in America (Harvard & Princeton). William
Cook's edition of Aristotle's POETICS is notable because it contains
(appended at back) the first translation of Gray's "Elegy" into Greek
verse.

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