[Rarebooks] FS: First English translation of Lysias. London: 1778

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Lysias and Isocrates. THE ORATIONS OF LYSIAS AND ISOCRATES, Translated from the Greek; with Some Accounts of Their Lives and a Discourse... by John Gillies. London: for J. Murray. 1778. Lg. 4to. (36),cxxxv,(1),498,(2)pp. With the leaf of errata at the end, and the two added engraved portraits in front. 20th century black pebbled cloth spine, over green cloth. A fine copy.    $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the first English translation of Lysias, and the first edition of a new translation of Isocrates. John Gillies (1747-1836) was a Scottish historian and translator.

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