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The Epistles of M T Cicero to M Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero; with.English notes to each Epistle. Together with a Prefatory Dissertation, In which the Authority of the said Epistles is Vindicated.
by MIDDLETON, CONYERS [TRANSLATOR]. CICERO
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
8vo, pp [4], cxxvii, [1], 195, [1, adverts], with advert leaf before title, bound in contemporary diamond dyed paneled calf, spine with raised bands and old but perhaps slightly later olive label, spine a little rubbed at joints and spine ends, but a fine clean copy, FIRST EDITION; Middleton was himself a well-established classical scholar at Cambridge, previously involved in conspicuous controversy with Bentley, when he entered into debate on authenticity of letters to Brutus, disputed by Tunstall. Middleton would later prove to be in large part right in accepting them into the Cicero canon of letters, and in this work provided for a first time a [parallel] English translation, which would remain the standard one long after. His defense of the book, however, occupies half of it, and is a model of English classical scholarship in the 18th Century. A very pleasing copy of this significant text.
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 217
- Title
- The Epistles of M T Cicero to M Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero; with.English notes to each Epistle. Together with a Prefatory Dissertation, In which the Authority of the said Epistles is Vindicated.
- Author
- MIDDLETON, CONYERS [TRANSLATOR]. CICERO
- Format/Binding
- Contemporary calf
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Published by Richard Manby
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1743
- Pages
- pp [4], cxxvii, [1], 195, [1, adverts]
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Greek Classics, Philosophy
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Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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