The Tragedies Of Euripides; Translated By R. Potter. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. (II.)

Euripides

RA Collection: Book

Record number

04/3628

Author

Uniform Title

[Works., English., Potter.]

Imprint

London,: Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme, Cuthell and Martin, J. Priestley;, And R. Bliss, And R. Bliss, Jun., Oxford.: 1808.

Physical Description

2 vols.; 209 mm. (Octavo.)

General Note

Vol. I: [vi], 507 p. - Vol. II: xvii, [i], 499 p.

Contents

Vol. I: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text]; [colophon]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - Preface [1781] - [Text]; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

The name of the printer, Nathaniel Bliss, is given in both colophons.

Summary Note

Volume I contains Potter's verse translations of The Bacchæ, Ion, Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Phoenician Virgins, The Supplicants, Hercules, The Heraclidæ; Volume II, Iphigenia in Aulis, Rhesus, The Trojan Dames, Hecuba, Helena, Electra, Orestes, Iphigenia in Tauris, Andromache.

Provenance

5 March 1810: Purchase agreed on recommendation of John Flaxman (see RA Council Minutes, IV, 199-200). A copy was acquired by 1815 - see Thomas Stothard's MS. 'Catalogue of the RA Library', shelf B.2.5. [RAA MIS/ ST/1]. Sometime after 1821 however this copy went missing (see the RA Secretary's master copy of the 1821 printed catalogue) and was replaced by the present copy purchased for 6s. on 23 January 1840 (see RA Council Minutes, IX, 96).

Copy Note

Imperfect; wants half-title of Vol. II. The divisional title-page of the Bacchae, which should be p. [v] of Vol. I, has been bound in in error before that of the Iphigenia in Aulis in Volume II.

Inscribed in ink on half-title of Volume I, 'Prize book adjudged to John Daintry Decr. 1811 M.M. Preston'.

Binding Note

19th-century half calf, brown paper-covered boards, black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Euripides', spines lettered 'R. Potter I. (II.)'.

Subject

Mythology, Greek
Greek drama - Greece
English drama - Translations from Greek - Translations into English - Great Britain - 18th century

Contributors

Nathaniel Bliss, printer
Robert Potter, translator
John Cuthell, publisher
John Priestley, publisher
Robert Bliss, publisher
R. Bliss Junior, publisher
John Daintry, previous owner
Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, publisher
Cuthell and Martin (London), publisher