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The duty of a king and his people : being two orations of Isocrates : the one containing the duty of a king; the other containing the duty of subjects : to which is prefix'd, the life of Isocrates, taken from the best authors : done into English from the Greek.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC7 A100 724t
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Isocrates.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Marriott (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Yard, William S. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, iii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 3-43 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- y:to s.s. c.'s prto (3) 1735 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Roberts ..., MDCCXXXV. [1735]
- Notes:
- Translation of Ad Nicoclem and Nicocles.
- Signatures: a² A-E⁴ [F]².
- Leaf a2 signed a; B2 signed B3, and gathering [F] signed E.
- Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initials.
- Price from imprint: "price six-pence."
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound with: The third Spira. London : Printed for J. Roberts ... 1724. With two ownership inscriptions on front free end paper: "[...] Marriott" and "Wm. S. Yard, 1888."
- Culture Class Collection copy has ms. underlining on title page.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, T35073
- OCLC:
- 26328616
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