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GB: R. Dodsley, 1753. PLEASE NOTE: This is ONLY the second volume which contains "A Dissertation on the Olympick Games" in 275 pages and "Menexnus A Dialogue of Plato". [ It does NOT have Odes. ] Old full leather with borh covers(nearly) DETACHED. Fairly clean tight text most suitabel to rtebind. ?Contemporary armorial bookplate of Townley featuring their arms (Argent, on a fesse sable, a cinquefoil or, in chief three mullets of the second) in wreaths of flowers etc but not their name. From the library of Town Head House (Windermere). . 2nd Edition. Hardback. Good/No DW.

London: R. Dodsley. Very Good+. 1749. Hardcover. Neat contemporary rebinding by bookbinder, Wojciech Lis in 1998; Hardcover (Black leather spine and tips on red cloth boards). Preface + ccviii + 318 pp; 4to; ccviii + 318 pages .

London: R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in Pallmall, 1753. Hardcover. Very Good. 1753 (Second Edition). Volume 1 only. Rebound in black leather. Lacking the frontispiece. Otherwise very good condition. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. [xxiii], 284 pages. Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in Pallmall.

London: R. Dodsley, 1749. Hardcover. Very Good. 7.75" x 10" "Pindar's victory odes are grouped into four books named after the Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean Games-the four Panhellenic festivals held respectively at Olympia, Delphi, Corinth and Nemea. Most of the odes were composed in honour of men or youths who achieved a victory at those festivals." Edgeworn with minor foxing. Binding is sound. Ink name on title page. One word ink annotation in the margin on page xxxv.

London: R. Dodsley, 1749. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 10" by 8.5". None. A lovely copy of Gilbert West's important translations of the odes of Pindar, including his own dissertation of the importance of the Olympic Games. The first edition of West's translation. First edition thus, being the first edition of Gilbert West's translation. Half-title is present.ESTC citation number T135986.Two pages of adverts to the rear.Collated, complete.Including Gilbert West's 'Dissertation on the Olympick Games', an interesting study on the games. Looking at their historical context, the venues, events, and athletes. A collection of the odes of Pindar, one of the nine canonical lyric poets of Ancient Greece, his work being the best preserved of the poets.Pindar's best known poems are his odes on the celebrations and high points of the Olympic games. These odes are an important source for historians, giving a detailed explanation of what the Olympics meant to Ancient Greece's citizens and athletes. This… Read More

London: R. Dodsley, 1749. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 4to. [6], i, [23], iii-ccvi, [4], 3-315, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Half recent calf over marbled boards with the spine in six compartments, recent purple label lettered in gold on the spine. Recent grey endpapers and pastedowns. The original endpapers are bound in. Title page printed in red and black with a wood-engraved bust of Pindar. With engraved tailpieces. Brueggemann 80. Moss 419. The Monthly Review was highly complementary of West's translation of Pindar: "The whole of Mr. West's book is indeed a treasure ..." The first edition of West's Pindar is rather difficult to find in commerce. Pindar is arguably the most famous of the Archaic Greek poets. His poetry is notably difficult to read (in Greek and English). His most popular pieces are focused on the celebrations and high points of the Olympic games. His poems help the historian to put the Olympic games in their proper context, and they help… Read More