Shelfmark
Ic8.4.05
Author
Uniform title
[Prometheus vinctus. Latin and Greek]
Title
Aischylou Promētheus desmōtēs. Cum variis lectionibus, Stanleiana versione, et notulis ex Garbitii aliorumque commentariis; quibus suas adjecit, in usum studiosæ juventutis, T. Morell, ...
Edition
Editio altera recognita.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Etonæ : Apud M. Pote, et E. Williams, MDCCXCVIII. [1798]
Physical description
[4], vi, [2], 78, [2], 47, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Language
Greek text, with Latin notes, followed by a Latin translation with separate pagination and register.
Note
With an initial advertisement leaf following the title page.
Note
The first three words of the title are transliterated from the Greek.
Note
Leaf K4 following p. 78 is blank.
Citation/references note
ESTC, N29519
Provenance
Ownership inscription in ink of H. Skinner, Wadham College dated 1799 on front flyleaf.
Provenance
Ownership inscription in ink of George A. Birse of King's College Aberdeen dated 1899 on front flyleaf; with his ownership stamp several times on front cover.
Binding
19th century boards covered in blue paper; boards trimmed to the text block; later brown paper spine covering; blue endpapers; ms. title and ownership inscriptions on front board.
Copy-specific note
Frequent pencil annotations in an early 19th-century hand giving readings in Latin or English, some cropped at fore-edge.
Subject
Prometheus (Greek deity) Drama Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Pote, Joseph, 1704 - 1787 printer.
Added entry--place
England Eton.
Language code
gre lat
Identifier
B43418