The Idylliums of Theocritus with Rapin's Discourse upon Pastorals. Made English by Mr. Creech. The Second Edition. To which is prefix'd, The Life of Theocritus. By Basil Kennet.
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London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1713. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [ii], iv, 105 [106 - 108 Contents, 109 - 112 adverts], engraved portrait of Theocritus as frontispiece, contemporary calf; upper joints cracked, top and base of spine chipped. With the autograph and date of Henry Samuel Partridge (1772 - 1858), Magdalen College, Oxford, 23 January 1802, on the front paste-down end-paper. Creech's translation of Theocritus was first published in 1684, just two years after his very successful translation of Lucretius. Straus, p. 221.
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- The Idylliums of Theocritus with Rapin's Discourse upon Pastorals. Made English by Mr. Creech. The Second Edition. To which is prefix'd, The Life of Theocritus. By Basil Kennet.
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- THEOCRITUS
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- London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1713
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- pastoral classics literature
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- Cracked
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