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The Orations and Epistles of Isocrates


Isocrates; Joshua Dinsdale (trans)


T. Waller 1752

Binding:  Hardback  |  Condition: Good  | 

Revised by Rev. Mr. Young. The extant works of the athenian rhetorician, one of the ten great attic orators. Contains twenty orations, notable speeches on a variety of topics including The Antidosis, (called the exchange of estates here) and the Panathenaicus plus other writings on morals and statecraft as well as exhortations for the greeks to unite against the persians and for Phillip II to undertake such an expedition. Complete with his epistles to rear, Plus two pages of advertisements. Early tree calf leather binding. Outer dentelles. Marbling to page edges. 8vo. (210x135mm) [vii] 437pp. Rubbing to edges. Previous owner's extra title and date applied with tape to spine. Scratch with loss of leather to rear cover. Occasional light spotting within but otherwise clean and binding sound, Good.