[Rarebooks] Gillies' History of Greece, 1792

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Gillies, John.   The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies, and Conquests; From the Earliest Accounts till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East.   Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts.   The Third Edition.  London: Printed for A Strahan and A. Cadell, 1792-3.   Four octavo volumes, bound in full contemporary tree calf, the spines finely tooled in gilt, red lettering labels.   With an engraved portrait frontispiece and two folding maps.   xii, 515; viii, 413; viii, 522; vii, 452, [59] pp.   Spine ends chipped, final leaf of the index with a closed tear; overall very good set in handsome bindings. 



  



John Gillies (1747-1836) taught the Greek class at Glasgow University before he was twenty; went abroad as the tutor to the Hon. Henry Hope, second son of the Earl of Hopetoun; was a corresponding member of the French Institute, a fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries; in 1793 he was appointed royal historiographer for Scotland.  His "History of Greece," first published in 1786, was quite popular in its day, competing as it did with Mitford's history, which was published around the same time. 





  

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